Word: cops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eyewash. In Leominster. Mass., Robert J. Cunningham was sentenced to 30 days in the House of Correction after disobeying a traffic signal, squirting an irate cop in the face with a water pistol...
Police rushed in. One hulking cop tried to haul away a student. A dark-eyed coed felled him with a blow of her shoe's high heel. Truckloads of cops roared up and shooting started. Three students fell; University President Siddik Sami Onar arrived, told the police chief it was illegal for his forces to enter university grounds. He was knocked down, bloodied and carted off to a police station. "Give us our president!" roared the students, now 5,000 strong and boiling mad. By the time President Onar was brought back, they were past heeding his call...
Class Dismissed. In San Francisco, Rookie Patrolman Keith Scott was fired after he overslept for an 8 a.m. police class, jumped into his Jaguar, took off at such speed that he lost control and crashed into another cop...
...cauldron of every conceivable ethnic strain, salted by rising expectations. They are the sons of Armenians, Syrians, Greeks, Poles, Czechs, Ukrainians, Irish and Germans. They are the daughters of Southerners, black and white, who migrated north to the assembly lines. They are overalled machinists and off-duty policemen (one cop this year won a Woodrow Wilson fellowship). And 72% of them work in order to study-the average graduate takes nearly six years to earn a diploma...
...that he can turn his major dislike into minor but flawless literary art. Now he returns to the attack with the story of Cecil Spurgeon, a tired, self-pitying status-keeper in a coastal enclave of empire in British East Africa. In 1947 he is a glorified cop who bears the White Man's Burden as if it were a huge chip on his sloping shoulders. Cecil comes from a second-rate public school and a touchily impoverished class (lower-middle) that relishes the colonial official's feudal powers over natives, subordinates and foreigners. Cecil's religion...