Word: cops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Infantry Regiment, stationed in Buenos Aires' suburbs, to storm the palace. First came a scout, a second lieutenant in steel-helmeted battle dress, who kicked open a back-door service entrance-startling a dozing plainclothes cop and a reporter...
...wouldn't dare answer any questions about Harrison Chadwick," the cop at the corner told a YDCHR pollster in front of Jordan Marsh's yesterday afternoon. "I mean, the law is the law," the sergeant said, "and Chadwick had no call to charge politicians with corruption...
...enough to give a motorcycle cop ulcers. On the slick asphalt pavement, the cut-down, exhaust-blatting hot rods stood poised for takeoff. Hunched over steering wheels, leather-masked drivers squinted through their goggles as the crowd shouted: "Stripe it, Chevy!" "Twist him off!" At the signal, the cars roared away-but not to the wail of a police siren. In Pomona, Calif., last week, the country's foremost hot-rodders were holding their Winternational Drag Racing championships before 39,000 cheering auto buffs...
Directing Oakland's revival is Republican Mayor John C. Houlihan, 51, the son of a San Francisco cop. Houlihan's campaign to save Oakland goes back to 1952, when he became chairman of the city's halfhearted planning commission. Houlihan began fighting for public housing and slum clearance against the opposition of the city fathers and the Oakland Tribune, the conservative local paper owned by the family of then Senator William Knowland. But Houlihan was undismayed by the entrenched opposition, got some redevelopment projects under way, eventually won over his critics. Last year, with the backing...
...Tired Cops. Beuve-Méry's hint of S.A.O. immunity was made explicit last week at Nimes, where a plastiqueur was to go on trial. Three members of the jury panel said they would serve only "under constraint"-reportedly they had received threatening S.A.O. letters.The judge fined them $10 each and postponed the trial. In Paris, the Societé Parisienne de Surveillance, largest of France's private detective agencies, was turning away business, told a prospective client who had been frightened by an S.A.O. threat: "We are up to our eyes in work. We may be able...