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...cabin's adjoining washhouse. As he entered, he was shot in the belly by Hollenbaugh, who had apparently sought overnight refuge there with Peggy. Hollenbaugh ordered the wounded Sharpe to the deputy's car, forced the girl to lie down on the back floor, and told the lawman to drive the car down a farm road toward Highway 522. Ten feet from the highway, and only 200 yards from the Pennsylvania Turnpike, the car was stopped by a cattle-guard gate. Hollenbaugh got no farther...
...with teen-age burglars in nearby Youngstown, Ariz. Deputy Nofs's death stirred such a response that the Phoenix Club may now increase membership to 350 and already has plans to pay life insurance premiums for all local policemen and firemen, hopes eventually to extend coverage to every lawman in Arizona. Grim proof that it is needed came once again last week: a 48-year-old Phoenix sheriff's lieutenant was killed during a gunfight, leaving a wife and three children-the latest beneficiaries of the Hundred Club...
...supporting cast. Spooked by reports that followers of the late Malcolm X planned to avenge their leader's death by assassinating Black Muslim Clay, some 300 Lewiston police, county sheriffs, state troopers, firemen and civil defense workers milled around the arena in a ratio of roughly one lawman for every 14 fans...
...professional bondsman, in business to make money, understandably leary of poor defendants who can neither put up collateral nor pay the usual fee: $100 for each $1,000 of bail. But what to do about it? By far the most impressive answers came not from a lawman but from a retired chemical engineer named Louis Schweitzer, who reported on a bold new experiment that may soon revolutionize the U.S. bail system...
...Edgar Hoover, 69, has been head of the FBI so long that people forget he could have been replaced by any incoming Administration. Last week he completed 40 years in the post, and Lyndon Johnson weighed in with his own endorsement. Next New Year's Day the top lawman will reach the compulsory retirement age of 70. "I know you wouldn't think of breaking the law," said L.B.J. So to offset the requirement, the President signed a special executive order that will allow the hale and hearty bachelor to continue serving "for an indefinite period of time...