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HELP FIGHT CRIME: BUY GUNS, urge bumper stickers on cars along Miami's Flagler Street. To attract new depositors, the city's Lincoln Savings and Loan Association offers not toasters or blenders, but pocket cans of spray repellent. Newly acquired Doberman guard dogs growl inside increasing numbers of Bade County homes; sales of sophisticated burglar alarm systems and rudimentary iron bars for doors are booming. Says a Miami policeman: "Sometimes I think I'm in Dodge City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Absolute War in Our Streets | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

...Arthur carries a club below the seat, and, if his uncle doesn't install a shield between the front and back seats soon, Arthur plans to get the license he needs to carry a gun. Until recently, Arthur let his doberman ride with him, lying in the shadows on the floor of the front seat, concealed from the passenger's view. If Arthur sensed that the passenger was interested in something besides a lift, he'd tap the front seat and the dog would immediately jump up. "Or if the passenger was an animal lover...

Author: By Jay Woodruff, | Title: Taxi Driver: Tales of a Nocturnal Veteran | 10/8/1980 | See Source »

...though. As Neil Young wails into the title song, Linson's camera pans across a snowy Western terrain to a secluded cabin where Hunter Thompson, amidst his strange interior decoration, struggles to meet his latest deadline. He guzzles liquor as he types, shoots his telephone, and cavorts with his Doberman, who is trained to attack on the word "Nixon." But, all too soon, our hero begins reminiscing and Where the Buffalo Roam slides into the quicksand of banality...

Author: By Jacob V. Lamar, | Title: Fear and Loathing | 5/14/1980 | See Source »

...main runway, stood a trailer converted into the dispatch office of Executive Aviation. EA, its twin-engined carriers and a snaky Lear jet, flew quick-order runs of car parts to GM plants around the country. Everything, from the reined jet to a sharp-boned and muscular Doberman, jutted sleek, Steinberg angles. Everything, that is, but an unshaven guy snoring in a wood chair propped against a wall with his boots on a table. He wore a Beech-nut "chaw" cap and kept a spit tin on the floor next to the chair. The Doberman sat poised as it grew...

Author: By Jim Tyson, | Title: Chariots of the Gods | 3/15/1980 | See Source »

...routine night patrol last August, two policewomen came upon a bizarre scene in downtown Detroit: a naked man, standing in the middle of the road with a Doberman pinscher, burning dollar bills. The officers, Katherine Perkins, 35, and Glenda Rudolph, 26, radioed for help and tried to persuade the man to come along quietly. Before they could make the arrest. Sergeant Paul Janness, 31, arrived. The naked man went berserk, flailing away at the policeman. Janness was badly beaten, and claimed that the two policewomen failed to come to his aid. When witnesses agreed, Perkins and Rudolph were charged with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Women Cops on the Beat | 3/10/1980 | See Source »

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