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...slow chase." His three-day course, already taken by more than 750 officers from Texas, Florida and Kansas, consists of six hours of class instruction (usually in a converted saloon near Dallas) and 18 hours of driving on a course with turns known as Serpentine, Lollypop and T-Bone Alley. Turner emphasizes calm, smooth movements and no tire-squealing maneuvers. "Think slow," he tells students. "Make a corner better, and you can catch the guy even if he's going 20 miles an hour faster than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Think Slow | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

...home from third with the winning run on a passed ball. "I've been in pressure situations before during the year, but I usually walked. Today I felt real good. I had a bat in my hand the whole game and I was ready. The guy threw me a lollypop and I knew I had it," he said...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Batsmen Split Yale Twinbill | 5/13/1977 | See Source »

...suck a lollypop...

Author: By Celia Gilbert, | Title: The God in Us Wishes to Live | 12/13/1972 | See Source »

Another midget, a boy this time, lollypop stuck to his palm, arms upheld by baloons tied to his wrists, ready for flight, came over to tend to his sister. For a moment there was a joyful reunion...

Author: By Stephen D. Lerner, | Title: Pennies for Peace | 5/27/1968 | See Source »

While Crazy Joey was on trial, the cops rounded up 14 members of the vending-machine racketeering mob that he had organized in Brooklyn, including his father, Albert Gallo, his two brothers, Larry Gallo and Albert Gallo Jr., and such assorted fish as Joseph Musumeci, Larry ("Big Lollypop") Carna, Joseph ("Little Lollypop") Carna and Frank ("Punchy") Illiano. The cops made the arrests-the technical charge was consorting with criminals, that is, each other-after word got around that the Gallo mob was about to declare a shooting war on a rival Brooklyn gang headed by an olive oil distributor named...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Crazy Like a Clam | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

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