Word: inspector
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...request to cut in on a channel) when a smokey sets up his radar. "You better get green stamps [cash] ready," warns a gruff voice on the Indiana toll road. One trooper even ticketed a trucker for urinating by the roadside. That cop's handle is now Fly Inspector. A more common offense is riding overweight, which can result hi a fine of several hundred dollars. Some gutsy drivers sneak around weigh stations on secondary roads. If nabbed, an outlaw driver can be jailed as well as fined. As the CB network widens, however, the number of fines grows...
...Look, sergeant, if I was Inspector Erskine [of The FBI], I would of had him for sure...
British Author J.B. (John Boynton) Priestley, 79, who has outlived most of his literary rivals, has just come out with his 99th publication, a book entitled The English, whom many of his admirers think he epitomizes. In London, one of his plays, An Inspector Calls, has been restaged at the Mermaid, and another, Eden End, is slated as a tribute from the National Theater Company in April. Even his native Bradford, which Priestley has written about none too kindly, conferred the freedom of the city on him. As for growing old, Priestley explained what it was like...
...anticipated the criticism," says Inspector H.D. Caldwell, Chief of Staff Services (which includes the Juvenile Missing Persons) for the Houston police. "Someone must be found to assume the blame." But, says Houston Police Chief Herman Short, "This kind of disgusting attempt at scapegoating compounds an already tragic incident...
...that Dick Tuck has angered Richard Nixon as much as any other man alive. As relentlessly as Inspector Javert trailed Jean Valjean, as doggedly as Caliban followed Prospero, as surely as a snowball seeks a top hat, Prankster Tuck stalked his quarry from one campaign to the next. "Keep that man away from me," Nixon ordered his staff, who were seldom able to oblige. Ultimately, Nixon paid his adversary the highest compliment: in the 1972 campaign, the White House decided to employ a Dick Tuck of its own. As H.R. Haldeman testified last week, Donald Segretti was hired to adopt...