Word: cops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Knight lowered his voice: "Had a little trouble here last night--cop got shot." He grinned. "Same little raggedy-ass cop we kidnapped back in '61.--Hell, it ain't nothin' like it was back then. Them cops came right in here last night. We didn' use' to 'low no cops in C.M.E." Knight rubbed his chin. "I don't know what it is. Looks like the Movement got people kind of non-violent. Two years ago, they wouldn'a showed up for a Brinks robbery...
Burke's Law (ABC) may last until Christmas. It features a Los Angeles police captain (Gene Barry) with an independent income who rides around in a Rolls-Royce driven by an Oriental chauffeur. One show features a parrot that squawks: "Rails up 2.6, utilities down 1.4." The cop has less distinguished lines to read. "That," he says, "is the way the body bounces...
...This knife and gun business is nonsense-strictly amateur-night material," said one. Added a cop: "Valachi must be talking off the top of his head. We know that some of these things can only be hearsay because by his own testimony he was only small potatoes in the mob. He just wouldn't have been privy to what was happening...
From the curious crowd which had gathered, a low moan arose. A little girl whimpered in her mother's arms; a woman laughed hysterically; tears streamed down the cheeks of old women. A traffic cop grabbed a straw hat off one woman's head, tried to put out the fire by waving it over the flames, succeeded only in making them blaze higher. Three U.S. newsmen at the scene were brutally clubbed, kicked and beaten to the ground by plainclothesmen who tried to seize a newsreel camera (see PRESS...
Hoses & Cam Covers. Suddenly a great roar went up from the crowd. Clark's Lotus was spewing oil. A 10? connecting hose had given way. Now it was Gurney out front, gracefully threading through traffic like a patrolling turnpike cop. After 131 miles, only one other car was on the same lap: the white Offy of Texas' Veteran A. J. Foyt, 28, winner of the Indy 500 in 1961, two-time U.S.A.C. champion. At one point, Foyt closed to within 7 sec. But Gurney was boxed in. He broke clear and within ten laps the lead grew...