Word: inspector
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From that experience emerged one of the country's most advanced police-reform efforts: the New York State Identification and Intelligence System. Set up in 1963, the system is run by Robert J. Gallati, a former New York City assistant chief police inspector and holder of four law degrees. Gallati's goal is nothing less than the computerization of all crime data now scattered among the state's 3,636 law-enforcement agencies...
Shouting Down. De Angelis' men duped Amexco with surprising ease. Often, one of them would clamber to the top of a tank, drop in a weighted tape measure, then shout down to an Amexco inspector on the ground that the tank was 90% full. Sometimes the tanks were indeed full-with water, topped by a thin slick of oil. Usually many were empty. Moreover, the tanks were connected by a jungle of pipes; Tino's men sometimes sneaked into the casually guarded tank farm on weekends, pumped oil from one tank to another. These machinations gave...
...gets his hand stuck in a Henry Moore statue, takes an overdose of slapstick. Ted Flicker and Buck Henry, the script-writers, preserve the tradition of amateur movies by taking on about five major roles apiece. Neither can act, however. Godfrey Cambridge provides some saving grace as the fire inspector, but then he speaks only ten lines...
According to the indictment, Harold Tousignaut not only held three town jobs (police chief, building inspector, road supervisor) paying $600 a month, but also netted $8,000 a year by leasing police cars to the village. Chief Tousignaut ordered each of his four policemen to drive 100 miles a day at 10? a mile, payable to himself. As for duties, the cops had only one-writing enough tickets to pay their salaries plus the town's other expenses. Any charge would do, including violation of nonexistent town ordinances...
...Paume Museum to crate up Van Goghs, Utrillos, Manets, Cezannes, Picassos-altogether some 1,200 impressionist and postimpressionist canvases, destined for a rail trip to Berlin. "Beauty belongs to the man who can appreciate it," says Scofield. Given secret orders to stop the train, a French railroad inspector...