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...police to police. "We ask our officers to be a combination of Bat Masterson, Sherlock Holmes, Sigmund Freud, King Solomon, Hercules and Diogenes," says Rocky Pomerance, Miami Beach police chief. Indeed, the U.S. often seems lucky to have any cops at all. Plato envisaged the policeman's lofty forebear as the "guardian" of law and order and placed him near the very top of his ideal society, endowing him with special wisdom, strength and patience. The U.S. has put its guardians near the bottom. In most places, the pay for an experienced policeman is less than...
...Jesse) Arthur Younger, 74, eight-term G.O.P. Congressman from San Mateo County, Calif., a prosperous San Francisco savings and loan executive who became an early (1954) exponent of giving Cabinet status to big-city interests under an etymologically questionable but politically sensible "Department of Urbiculture," the conceptual forebear of the Department of Housing and Urban Development; of leukemia; in Washington...
...ancestor's name deleted from the title, and Judge Max Leboulanger quickly agreed. "Damaging to the family's good name," ruled the magistrate. So, thanks to the Comte Xavier de Sade, an eminently proper gentleman farmer from Condé-en-Brie, the name of his peculiar forebear, the Marquis de Sade, was ordered removed from the billboards advertising the Paris production of Marat Sade. Protested Producer Tony Azzi: "Real sadism...
...winner!" shouted Industrialist Howard Samuels, who calls himself "the poor man's millionaire." "I will be nominated on the first ballot," predicted Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., who recalled that his first New World forebear ran for public office in the 1690s. "I think I'm the only man," said New York City Council President Frank O'Connor, who was waiting for his rivals to evacuate Page One before formally announcing his own candidacy...
...Homo sapiens neanderthalensis) and modern man (Homo sapiens sapiens). His theory, if correct, would trace man's ancestry back to the Pliocene Age, roughly 1,850,000 years ago and more than 1,000,000 years before Java man, commonly considered modern man's earliest known forebear...