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There is no place in college hockey for such behavior, but while the department's dragnet has succeeded in eliminating such vicious attacks at Harvard, it has also left Section 18 about as flat as a day-old pitcher of beer from Father...
...dragnet that followed, police from a dozen countries put together a fairly complete profile of Carlos without ever being able to find him. In a satchel which Carlos had left with a friend in London's Bayswater, they found a passport and a photograph, along with a list of 500 prominent names apparently targeted for kidnaping or assassination, including Playwright John Osborne, his actress wife Jill Bennett and Violinist Yehudi Menuhin. In Paris, police discovered an apartment with a nearly complete ammunition dump of dynamite, submachine guns and homemade bombs, along with equipment to make counterfeit documents. There...
...robbers, Watergate and Vietnam. But he couldn't control his techniques. He cut so flippantly from one to the other--a laugh here, a sob there--that he destroyed the thoughtful consistency that would have elicited emotional response. Dog Day Afternoon ends up being as realistic and immediate as Dragnet, and no more nor less contemporary than the Nehru jacket...
...BEST Higgins writes books reminiscent of Raymond Chandler's; he has an ear for terse, unequivocal dialogue, and an equally sharp cynicism that cuts through the moral flab of his characters. But when his material is as worn-out as it is here, Higgins sounds more like Dragnet's Joe Friday, insisting monotonously, "Just the facts...
...gray, repetitive routine-phone work, sifting previously gathered information, conferring with informers. One hundred detectives and police officers are now working full-time on the case, and everyone else on the force has it in mind. "There are 30,000 cops looking for that guy," says Averill. The dragnet has turned up unanticipated side benefits. The bank-robbery evidence has led to the tagging of two more men-already jailed on different offenses-as accomplices of Velez, Segarra and Car Owner Hernandez (who is wanted for allegedly taking part in the bank jobs). Raids based on tips about the suspects...