Word: copse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early Career: an insurgent Democrat, he entered South Philadelphia ward politics while still a student, ran the local Al Smith presidential campaign in 1928. As a young lawyer, he represented cops and the city's firemen's union, ran unsuccessfully for court clerk (1928), district attorney (1931) and...
The mountain that John Monroe put in its place was once an orderly peak in Wadi Shaib. Last month, local police patrolling the road to Jerusalem reported that it was walking away. Government officials at Amman at first viewed the report-and the cops-with suspicion. Then they went to...
They plunked him in a leather-covered swivel chair, snapped pictures and hammered him with questions while they called the police. Even after the cops arrived, Rodriguez stuck to his story that he had not killed the girl. When the cops stepped out of the room to decide what to...
"To some, these remarks may smack of religious jingoism, but we feel it is past time for American Catholics to be relieved from the oppressive burden of our Spanish brethren. We have spent weary hours cleaning up the blood the Spaniards overzealously spilt in the Inquisition. If they wish to...
Fleetfoot. In San Jose, Calif., the State College's police school had a new idea for keeping prospective cops on their toes: a mandatory course in ballet dancing.