Word: cops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Noonan was directing traffic, half a block from the bank truck. He noticed a black Buick sedan beside it and strolled down the street to call a warning against double parking. As he approached, the car started up, ripped past him, screeched around the corner and was gone. The cop took one look at the open doors of the bank truck, scribbled down the first three digits of the Buick's license-all he had been able to spot-and ran into the drugstore. The guards tumbled out: $681,000 -biggest cash haul since the million-dollar Brink...
Reichert, ill with the flu, left his bed to help. At police headquarters he turned the keys of his car over to a policeman, "in case something happens to me." In an old air-raid shelter near by, Reichert, assisted by two cops, gingerly opened the parcel and took out Volume L-Z of a standard German encyclopedia. "Hmm," wondered a cop, "why would anyone send the Chancellor an encyclopedia?" A moment later, a blinding flash hurled him to the wall; two hours later, Reichert was dead from the bomb meant for Chancellor Adenauer...
...From then on," says Hall, "all he needed was prompting." Letting Rodriguez think he was a cop, Hall prompted him. Rodriguez almost casually admitted that he had had a few drinks with the girl, quarreled with her in the park and knocked her down. As he walked away, he said, "I looked back and saw a soldier helping her up." Hall was convinced. Still talking on the phone, he scribbled a hasty note to City Editor Jack McDowell: "Whitcomb Hotel tailor shop (Rodriguez -killer)." Reporters John Keyes, Walsh and two photographers raced to the Whitcomb, found Rodriguez at the phone...
...from classes, the boys and girls at Denver's East High School consulted with experts in 119 different fields and picked the jobs they thought they would like best. The girls' choices: model, airline stewardess, secretary, homemaker. The boys' choices: FBI, Secret Service or ordinary cop, cattle raising, medicine...
...description had just gone over the air when a Providence cop saw two black coupes. He took off after them in a 70-mile-an-hour chase in which a second police car soon joined. The two-coupes finally stopped, with the first police car behind them. The second police car smashed into the first, reducing both to junk. The men they were chasing turned out to be FBI agents hurrying to Quonset to investigate the robbery...