Word: cops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Contested every four years, the Rimet Cup in prewar years used to travel between Latin America and Italy. In 1950 Brazil got into the finals but lost out to Uruguay. Brazil promptly went into a week of mourning. This year the Brazilians were out to cop the cup. The team they had to beat: the lithe and husky Hungarians, 1952 Olympic champions and the hottest team out of Budapest since the Gabor sisters...
...Pyramids. At police headquarters in Cairo, Zouzou announced that she wanted to be taken to the fashionable Semiramis Hotel. The cops shuddered: the Semiramis was full of tourists loaded with dollars who might not understand about Zouzou in her agitated state of mind. "Look, lady." pleaded a top cop, "you can't go to the Semiramis. Pick any place anywhere in Egypt, in the whole damn world for all we care. But please, please don't say the Semiramis." At 4 a.m. Zouzou capitulated; she would take a suite in a suburban hospital...
...police phone rang. It was Zouzou; she didn't like the hospital. With a groan, the police moved Zouzou to the Mena House, near the Pyramids, and installed her in room 35, the honeymooners' favorite. "At least there are not so many foreigners around," said one cop...
Late one night in his Paris apartment, Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, editor of the weekly L'Express, got a polite phone call from a French policeman. Asked the cop: What time would Servan-Schreiber go to his office next day? Editor Servan-Schreiber, at 30 the wonder boy of French journalism, replied that he would be there at 8 a.m. as usual. Next day when he arrived at the office he found the doors closed tight and sealed with official wax. The government had seized the current issue of his weekly and temporarily closed the office. The charge: "ministers...
...good Samaritan, Cinemactor John (Surrender) Carroll, who tried to beach rudderless Nicky in a quiet berth in Carroll's apartment near by. On their long voyage home, Nicky got hold of the car door, expertly swung it to blacken Carroll's eye. Local cops, called by Carroll's neighbors, described the rest of the trip. To the echoes of cursing, screaming and collapsing furniture, Nicky greeted them with a manful challenge: "You want a fight? Here I am!" In handcuffs, Nicky was hauled in a radio car to the police station, where he hoarsely announced...