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Back at city hall, the Mayor has taken to the streets himself to demonstrate his personal commitment. At least twice a week during this first summer, Lindsay has spent a couple of hours walking through the ghettos, accompanied by plain clothesmen and one of his aides. Tanned and in shirt sleeves, the Mayor walks unannounced into the offices of community organizations and businesses, stopping to answer questions, to clean up litter, or to note down a rubbish-filled vacant lot or a particularly dirty street. Residents are only too eager to show him their problems. On one walk...

Author: By Mary L. Wissler, | Title: Lindsay: Dilemmas of Policy and Politics | 10/3/1966 | See Source »

University Police have assigned three plain clothesmen to patrol the Harkness Commons at night, in the wake of stealing from this area, Chief of University Police Matthew Toohy reported yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Plainclothesmen Will Patrol Harkness Common Area at Night | 10/6/1954 | See Source »

Radcliffe Dean Emily B. Lacey, in confirming the story last night, said she had called the police "out of interest to find out what they were doing" several days after the incident occurred. The plan-clothesmen could report no progress then, but did return to Henry House to take footprint molds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Still Searching for Prowler After Assault Attempt at Radcliffe | 11/5/1953 | See Source »

...stop a car heist. Then a stool pigeon tells him that a well-known hood is back in town to pull a bank job. Piece by piece, evidence comes in to connect the hood with the heist. By 9 a.m. the bank in question is staked out with plain clothesmen. At 1 p.m. the visiting hood and his gang strike, as expected. After a savage gun battle, two thugs get away-without the loot. By 5 p.m. the captain has cracked two witnesses and, on their information, caught the rest of the gang on the getaway. He thereupon calmly goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 27, 1953 | 7/27/1953 | See Source »

Through Istanbul's blacked-out station two plain clothesmen marched a big-nosed, big-mustached man. They put him forcibly aboard the Sofia express. He was Peter Grabowsky, Minister of the Interior and Bulgaria's No. 1 Jew baiter in Premier Filov's cabinet. Ten days before, he had arrived in Turkey with forged identification papers. U.S. Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt urged the Turks to send him back where death or jail await...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Criminals | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

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