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...former cop, Edward Droge Jr., was called as a witness late in the week. After four years on the force, Droge left the department earlier this year to continue his education at the University of Southern California. He testified that of the 70 patrolmen he had known at the 80th precinct in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn, only two were not on the take. Despite the fact that Droge won eight citations, he casually accepted payoffs in cash or weapons. Gamblers would throw a roll of bills through a window into the back seat of his radio car, though...
...Louis Napoleon. He was indeed "I'homme du destin," as Winston Churchill once called him, and even his name, suggestive of both Charlemagne and ancient Gaul, was perfectly suited to the role he took upon himself. When De Gaulle died last week, just 13 days before his 80th birthday, President Georges Pompidou summed up the crusade: "He gave France her governing institutions, her independence and her place in the world...
...There is almost no reference to President Georges Pompidou, De Gaulle's principal aide during the period covered by the book and his Premier for six years. Some cynics suspect, in fact, that De Gaulle deliberately rushed publication (the book was scheduled to appear two days before his 80th birthday on Nov. 22) primarily to steal headlines from Pompidou, who was visiting Moscow. He succeeded. The biggest story in France was not Pompidou's tour but De Gaulle's book. There is, however, at least one consolation for Pompidou. Awaiting him when he returns to the Elys...
...lasted very well, don't you think?" asked Mystery Writer Agatha Christie last week on her 80th birthday as she received reporters at her Berkshire, England, home. "I must have stamina." Stamina indeed. The occasion also marked the publication in England of Agatha's 80th novel, Passenger to Frankfurt. "I call the book an extravaganza," she said, "but evidently it is not quite as extravagant or fantastic as I had supposed." Why? The plot involves a fictional event that this month became fact: the hijacking of four passenger airliners in Africa...
...mount a special one-day "high point" with rocket and mortar attacks on 64 towns and outposts. But even with nearly 60,000 U.S. and ARVN troops off in Cambodia, the sputtering high added up to a very low-key celebration of Ho Chi Minn's 80th birthday...