Word: cops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Predictably, some of the beer buyers were under age (one happy girl sported a false birth certificate that she got for a Christmas present), and minors could always get friends to buy beer for them. The main point, as one cop put it, was: "You treat them like adults and they'll behave like it. The other night two guys began directing traffic on the beach. We couldn't stop them short of arresting them, so we told their buddies, and they threw them into the water. That cooled 'em off and solved the problem." Says Commissioner...
...claimed to be. From behind the desk where he was seated when they arrived, he wordlessly handed a police inspector an identity card in the name of Louis Carriere. (Methodical Raoul Salan took the name from the Paris street where he once lived.) After a studied silence, the cop pointed his revolver at the general's chest, drawled: "You are Salan...
Captured in the apartment with Salan was his aide, former Captain Jean Ferrandi. who had served under the general in Indo-China, came with him to Algiers for the April putsch. As police bundled them outside, one cop could not help identifying their catch to other residents in the hallway. When the concierge heard that M. Carriere was Raoul Salan, she fainted. Silent and deathly pale, Salan was taken with Ferrandi by helicopter to Reghai'a, French military headquarters 20 miles from town, where the S.A.O. chief huddled bleakly on a bench between two gendarmes. There he was spotted...
...envy; a bookstore owner obsessed with the past history of this quarter of Paris barely sees the girl as she passes before his eyes. And a novelist named Carnejoux, watching the square from his balcony, is excited: first, because he is as lustful as the detective and the traffic cop, and second, because he knows that the beautiful, bouncing runner will make a fine incident in the avant-garde novel he intends to write about an hour's jumble of thoughts in the Carrefour de Buci...
...could do nothing for him. "Never have I regretted the outcome," she says. "He died famous." She took only students from whom she could demand as complete a devotion to work as her own. And then she extracted the most she could from each of them. She commissioned Cop-land to write an organ concerto while he was studying under her, then performed the solo in the 1925 premiere conducted by Walter Damrosch...