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...Blue Knight is Bumper Morgan, a 49-year-old patrolman on the verge of retirement after 20 years in the L.A.P.D. Wambaugh almost challenges his reader: "You want a pig? I'll show you a real pig." Bumper is a flatulent, potbellied, 275-lb. prototype of the bulls that demonstrators love to hate. The caricature is deliberate; the author means to endow a stereotype with complexity and sentiment. Bumper has his own street ethics: "When it came to accepting things from people on my beat, I did have one rule - no money. I never felt bought...
...trial of a robbery suspect he has brought in, Morgan observes: "We have a very diligent bunch of young public defend ers around here who . . . will drive you up the wall defending a chicken shit burglary like it was the Sacco-Vanzetti trial." Knowing that a suspect is guilty, Bumper lies on the stand about the circumstances of the arrest, partly to protect one of his informants, partly to ensure that the man gets convicted. Out on the streets, Wambaugh suggests, cops have to make their own accommodations...
...high prices reflect a short supply of livestock. Faced with increased wage and feed costs over the past few years, farmers have trimmed the size of their herds and litters. Now that a bumper corn harvest has made feed cheaper again, cattlemen find it profitable to hold their steers in feed lots longer to wait for beef prices to go still higher. In January, beef production ran 3% behind demand and hog output lagged 17%. Substituting other foods is not the housewives' answer either. The USDA estimates that all retail food prices will rise...
...that notion. Raises that come as a result of promotions do not count against the 5.5% standardre severe enough to make many businessmen gloomy, despite the efforts to pump up euphoria by a group called Citizens for a New Prosperity. With White House cooperation, the group is passing out bumper stickers, decals and yardsticks whooping up the prosperous prospects of Phase II, even as unions pass out Buy American buttons. Actually, there is plenty of leeway under Phase II rules for sharp gains in profits. Controls apply not to total prof its but to profit margins percentage of sales...
...nation's farmers, who look increasingly to foreign markets to absorb U.S. abundance, are hard hit. A bumper soybean crop in Alabama spilled out of all available storage elevators and was kept temporarily on barges. While dock workers ignored a state court's back-to-work order, one group of farmers threatened to load the crop onto ships themselves. Barges carrying the Midwest's feed-grain harvest to port were backed up at a score of wharves along the Mississippi River and the sight of corn piled high on the ground has become common. Illinois farmers have...