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...might have ended there, like any one of a thousand police-blotter items. But Smith's arrival at the station house happened to be seen by scores of Negro residents of the red brick Hayes Homes housing development across the street and by other cab drivers as well. Out over the cabbies' crackling VHP radio band went the rumor that white cops had killed a Negro driver. Within minutes, cabs and crowds were converging on the grey stone headquarters of the Fourth Precinct in the heart of Newark's over crowded, overwhelmingly Negro Central Ward. By midnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: Sparks & Tinder | 7/21/1967 | See Source »

...Sept. 3, 1965. Subsequently, Fuller himself saw such a UFO outside the town, and his report is that of a believer, or rather a convert. He writes in documentary style, following the grammar and non sequiturs of his tape recorder, and his work has the police-blotter awkwardness of one who wishes to convince by sincerity rather than to persuade by fine writing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heavenly Bogeys | 9/2/1966 | See Source »

Defiant Throughout. As for Daniel Arzhak, the major stain on his blotter was his macabre novel This Is Moscow Speaking, which imagined a "Public Murder Day," on which Soviet citizens could kill almost anyone they chose. Excerpts from the trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Public Murder Day | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

...entered Grays Hall, Bundie once again found the Office strangely active. Several officers were talking softly but actively in the outer office. Bundie walked past them and approached the Chief, who was periodically pounding his fist on the desk blotter. "Two in one day," he muttered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Biff Bundie, University Cop: The Circle of Seven | 5/19/1965 | See Source »

Later, the police listed the charge on the blotter, in black ink, as "disorderly conduct." Still later, in a different hand in blue ink, the word "pervert" was added in parentheses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Senior Staff Man | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

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