Word: copse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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A French navy band thumped out ruffles and flourishes, the Foreign Legion detachment snapped to the garde-à-vous, and a thin line of civilians and dignitaries cheered and waved the Tricolor. But then things came apart. The crowds that lined Avenue 13 on De Gaulle's motorcade route...
The fastest-selling new spy thriller in the U.S., already on the bestseller lists, is The Kremlin Letter, by Noel Behn (284 pages; Simon & Schuster; $4.95). It raises no serious questions at all, except perhaps about taste. Faced with the espionage writer's inevitable decision of choosing between Ian...
Dealing as they must with all manner of rogues and reprobates, British bobbies figure they have at least one thing going for them: they never carry firearms in the course of ordinary duty. The theory is that thugs are less inclined to pack a gun themselves if they know the...
Cruising down Braybrook Street in a West London middle-class neighborhood in their unmarked car, the three cops pulled up beside a pale-blue Vanguard parked at the curb. Detective Sergeant Christopher T. Head, 30, a plainclothesman, got out to question the four young toughs in the car-possibly wondering...
Friendly Murders. According to the FBI, for example, Philadelphia endured a startling 70% increase in serious offenses between 1951 and 1953. Why? Simply because one police district failed to report 5,000 complaints in 1951. The new FBI report itself warns readers to discount this year's Baltimore figures...