Word: cops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seated behind his 8-ft. desk, Stanley Russell Schrotel looks like a corporation executive and talks like a university professor. But Stan Schrotel (rhymes with motel) is, in fact, a cop, a man who makes his living as Cincinnati's chief of police. And at a time when the rising wave of crime has become a major national problem, Police Chief Schrotel, 47, has earned the reputation of being just about the best cop...
...perfect squelch I've heard about sports slang came from one of our young writers arguing that "Bosox" and "Chisox" were ridiculous. His opponent in the debate continued to say that such words made it easier for headlines. The first man answered: "I can see it now. WASHNATS COP PAIR." HOWARD KLEINBERG Executive Sports Editor Miami News Miami...
Philadelphia and Detroit also reported an alarming increase in the number of attacks against policemen. In Los Angeles, where such assaults have almost tripled in recent years, some 300 cop fighters were prosecuted in the past year; their weapons ranged from nail-studded boards to soggy garbage and (in a home for delinquent girls) bedpans. On Memorial Day, a mob of 300 set upon 75 cops in a fist-swinging riot at Griffith Park started by a hassle over a teen-ager who had stolen a ride on a merry-go-round. Some weeks later in suburban San Gabriel, when...
...East German revolt. But the West Berliners were not intimidated. "Berlin bleibt frei, Berlin bleibt frei" (Berlin will remain free), chanted a crowd of 30,000 gathered a stone's throw from the Vopos on the Western side of the Brandenburg Gate. Near by, an East German cop who got too close to a West Berlin throng was grabbed, hauled over the line and savagely beaten. Realizing that things were nearing flash point, West Berlin police slowly forced their own people a half-mile away from the sector border. As they backed off. the West Berliners, in one final...
...back. I have to catch a train, but I was afraid that someone would steal your bike.'" At the movies, she adds, "I usually put it where the person in the box office can see it. She's delighted to keep an eye on it." A motorcycle cop once gave Sweater Designer Pamela Colin a personal escort as she wove through dense traffic with boxes of sweaters strapped to her baggage rack. George Franklin Jr., executive director of the nonpartisan Council on Foreign Relations, even pedals in dinner clothes. And Textile Designer George Roper takes his bike...