Word: cops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long as the action is confined to Madcap Melba charming a cop out of giving her a parking ticket, or a gangster into surrendering a restaurant phone, the story is readable enough and lively. But Rona Jaffe intends more. The mousy girl friend is in analysis and given to morose dissections of her emotions, ranging from jealousy of Melba to frustration about the men who get away. She has a strange preoccupation with necrophilia. When one romance collapses, the mousy girl laments that "social graces are dead, shyness is dead, chivalry is dead, game playing is dead, necking is dead...
...AUSTRIA. Jaywalking tourists in Vienna should happily pay up if a cop demands 10 shillings (40?) on the spot; the fine is perfectly legal, and protest only causes arrest. Viennese streetcars are sacred; even driving autos on the tracks is illegal. Austria also bans the wearing of all foreign military uniforms...
Married. Gregg Sherwood Dodge, 41, widow of Auto Heir Horace Dodge Jr.; and Daniel D. Moran, 29, former New York City cop, now a Palm Beach realtor; she for the third time, he for the first; in Manhattan. Although estranged from Dodge at his death in 1963, Gregg claimed that she collected something like $9,000,000 in out-of-court settlements of suits against his estate and his mother (for trying to break up their marriage...
...what point force in restraining lawbreakers becomes "unnecessary and excessive." With three cases of police misconduct now pending before the board, the police also won a court order delaying any hearing until the case is decided. Said one Rochester detective: "It's tough enough just being a cop. We don't need an advisory board to make the job tougher...
...many ways of registering gripes against police, including police complaint departments, local and federal courts and the FBI. The International Association of Chiefs of Police, which represents the nation's local law-enforcement officers, is dead set against review boards. So is the nation's top cop, FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover. Reporting on last summer's violent riots in Rochester and Philadelphia, the only two U.S. cities with review boards, Hoover declared: "The police were so careful to avoid accusations of improper conduct that they were virtually paralyzed. The rioters were thereby emboldened to resist...