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...members, nearly half the blacks on the 13,000-man Chicago force, though one department spokesman says he has heard that the dues-paying cops in Robinson's group number no more than 50. In San Francisco, which has 1,800 policemen, all 85 of the blacks belong to Officers for Justice, founded two years ago to redress black grievances. Among them: the regular police organization refused legal aid to black cops charged with off-duty offenses, but hired Jake Ehrlicha well-known California criminal lawyerto defend a white cop accused of manslaughter. The Guardians...
...When I first saw it on TV it gave every indication of being a classical sea monster or at least something that didn't belong there," confessed Sieswerda...
...some, like Writer Pete Hamill, the unusual family to which both men belong is an American version of the Castle Irish, a hated nobility. To admirers, the Buckleys represent what is good in family life: unselfconscious affection, vitality, devotion to excellence, a felicitous mix of principle and hedonism. The ten Buckley children received a steady stream of good-humored, constructive memoranda from their frequently traveling father, William F. Buckley Sr. In one, occasioned by their overuse of the many family cars, he suggested "a course of therapy designed to prevent atrophy of the leg muscles, if only for aesthetic reasons...
Died. Agustin Lara, 70, Mexico's foremost composer and lyricist; of heart and lung disease; in Mexico City. Because he could not write music, someone would stand by the piano as he played and jot down the scores of his tunes, including You Belong to My Heart, Granada and Madrid...
...other hand, accepting a degree was not really something that hurt the people who had been buying his records and believing in them for years; he does not belong to his fans, after all, and if he wanted to have a Princeton diploma to hang on his wall, no one had any right to feel betrayed. In contrast, issuing "Self Portrait" was a direct insult...