Word: inspector
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...responsibility for the operation of trains-engineers, conductors, trainmen who moved cars to sidings and dispatchers-had to carry a fine timepiece that would not gain or lose more than 40 seconds in two weeks, and had to be cleaned and regulated twice a year by a railroad watch inspector...
...Coldstream Guards at Buckingham Palace sweltered stoically in their bearskins, London bobbies resorted to what some considered to be the British equivalent of toplessness -they went tieless. "It's the first time in our history we've allowed them to do this," explained an apologetic London inspector. "As soon as the weather turns back to normal, the ties will be back...
...BENGALI INHERITANCE (Pantheon; 225 pages; $6.95) is also based on the gold standard. Hong Kong Senior Inspector Richard Chan is a heroic young pro whose district is the last resting place of a 24-karat fortune. The loot has been missing since 1945, when the Fascist collaborator Subhas Chandra Bose perished in an air crash. Bird-dogging the musty trail of the treasure, Detective Chan takes on a slew of Oriental cutthroats, as well as the colonial snobs who disdainfully regard him as a subgumshoe. Ceylonese Author Owen Cela is obviously no stranger to the refractions of cultural prejudice...
...time of the robbery, Inspector Jacques Clouseau was standing outside the bank, arguing with a beggar. The poor fellow was trying to earn a few centimes playing the accordion, while his pet monkey collected coins in a tin cup. Now you will recall from The Pink Panther and A Shot in the Dark that Clouseau has an immaculate and quite literal respect for the law. This is, in fact, why he is in uniform, on foot patrol, instead of dashing about in plain clothes and solving glamorous crimes. His strict adherence to the book, as well as an unshakable simple...
...liquefied and wholly improbable French accent, he delivers a severe reprimand to the beggar and his "minkey," informing them that they constitute a commercial enterprise and require a license. Since this all takes place while the bank is being robbed, it is subsequently suggested to Clouseau by his chief inspector that the beggar may well have been a lookout. Dumbfounded, Clouseau does not mention that while the robbers made their getaway, he picked up a stray bit of currency that the brigands had dropped from the bundle and even stopped traffic for the getaway...