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...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...
Died. Jack Hawkins, 62, robust, husky-voiced British actor often cast in the role of a steadfast military man (Bridge on the River Kwai) or a true-blue police inspector (Gideon of Scotland Yard); following a long battle with throat cancer; in London. In 1966 Hawkins lost his larynx to cancer. Last April, hoping to regain his full voice, he volunteered to undergo an experimental procedure in Manhattan for the surgical implantation of an artificial voice-box, but his throat never healed...
Apolinar's stature confers another benefit: when state labor inspectors make their infrequent visits, he can crawl into a nearby irrigation ditch and hide. Last week, however, a sharp-eyed inspector caught Apolinar. If he had ordered him to leave the fields, the Castillo family would have to go without the $2.70 that his average 48 lbs. of peppers a day contributes to their earnings -and one of his five brothers and sisters might have gone hungry...
...named Bradley Pearson. Grinding his teeth in silence, Bradley has been waiting for the moment of absolute inspiration. Nothing less will do. His cursed Doppelgdnger, his best friend, is Arnold Baffin, a fluent hack who turns out popular novels with religious overtones while Bradley grubs away in a tax inspector's office. Freedom is the cruel lure of Murdoch novels. Opting for early retirement, Brad ley believes his time of freedom, his time of inspiration, has come: "I can be a great writer now." But instead of solitude and virgin-white pages covered with copperplate writing, what awaits this...