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...James Fyfe, an ex-cop-turned-professor at American University, claims better training and their restrictions on the use of firepower actually benefit the police in more ways than one. In a New York study, he found that restrictive measures led to 50 percent fewer police killings and also reduced the number of policemen injured by suspects and fellow officers. At the same time, the arrest rate rose. "There's no evidence it [curbs on the use of deadly force] hurts police efficiency," says Fyle...

Author: By Errol T. Louis, | Title: Violence in the Streets | 1/11/1983 | See Source »

Motor launches took questionnaires to lonely lighthouses at Neptune and Thistle Islands and along the Great Barrier Reef, while on the equatorial Australian-trust island of New Ireland, Census Taker Douglas Fyfe, normally a schoolteacher, set up shop beside a flooded river to interview rubber-plantation workers. Four men drowned in a swamped boat as they tried to reach Fyfe, but he counted them anyway, since they had been alive 30 hours earlier on the census deadline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australia: Filling in the Ghastly Blank | 7/22/1966 | See Source »

Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). Filmed biography of Hermann Göring, Adolf Hitler's top accomplice. Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, who prosecuted Göring at the Nuremberg trials, will help out Narrator Walter Cronkite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Nov. 23, 1959 | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

After the preliminary speech by U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren in a morning coat, the major themes of the joint conference were laid down in major speeches by Britain's Lord Kilmuir (who, as David Maxwell Fyfe, was British Home Secretary from 1951-54) and U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAW: Call to Greatness | 8/5/1957 | See Source »

...missed." says Rex. "Fortunately I didn't need one in the theater." Noel, his son by his first wife, was an Olympic skier, now plays the guitar as an entertainer in European nightclubs. In London. Harrison moves confidently at any level of society; his sister married David Maxwell Fyfe, who was Home Secretary, and is now Viscount Kilmuir, the present Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, and a member of the Tories' top command. Five years ago Harrison built a villa overlooking the fishing village of Portofino on the Italian Riviera, where Rex fished, swam, sped about in speedboats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Charmer | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

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