Word: inspectors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cops Complain. Accordingly, Lindsay fired the commissioner and brought in Philadelphia's police commissioner, Howard Leary. Two days later, after consulting with city hall, Leary named his own chief inspector, who is the top uniformed police official. The new chief is Sanford Garelik, a Jewish officer with distinguished professional credentials. Even before Lindsay took office, Republican Senator Jacob Javits, who is also Jewish, had recommended Garelik for elevation. Two former police commissioners, both Democrats, took up the tired cry of "political influence." Three uniformed chiefs resigned as soon as Garelik was promoted over their heads. City Council President Frank...
...Beirut, police stand blithely by while taxis careen up one-way streets the wrong way, honking every time they pass a sign reading "Klaxon Interdit." Smuggling of everything from hashish to hand grenades proceeds under the benign eye of the customs inspector, and buying a judge's opinion is sometimes as easy as buying a crate of Lebanese apples. When mild, soft-spoken Charles Helou, 52, was elected President of Lebanon by its Parliament in 1964, everyone expected him merely to preside over this happy chaos, because, as one Beirut parliamentarian puts it, "Corruption is the Lebanese...
...Sleeping Car Murder is only the first of the multiple killings in this straightforward French thriller. A sultry perfume saleswoman is strangled in a six-person compartment aboard the Marseille-Paris express, and several of her companions are dead before Police Inspector Yves Montand corners the killer for the traditional wrap-up of clues, motives and revelations...
...commanded Maryland's National Guard during the Cambridge race riots of 1963 and 1964. Gelston, a trim, crew-cut six-footer who won plaudits from both whites and Negroes for his fair, imperturbable handling of a potentially bloody conflict, plans a major reorganization, including such reforms as an inspector general to hear complaints from the ranks, stiffer recruitment standards, and more Negro cops...
...wrote the screenplays for Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago, and who wrote the play A Man for All Seasons, is now cranking up the screenplay for Seasons, which will star Scofield-as soon as Actor Scofield completes his London stage run in Gogol's The Government Inspector. Tony Richardson, who directed the film Tom Jones, also directed John Osborne's play Luther. Tom Courtenay, who starred in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner -which Tony Richardson directed-played Pasha in Zhivago, will go back into rep this summer. Albert Finney, who was Tom Jones...