Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They cut off all communication with the outside and raided the prison arsenal. Before long, police cars and a patrol jeep rolled out of the jail, carrying escapees wearing stolen police uniforms. About the same time, the noon guard shift marched up to the prison gate. The remaining convicts greeted them with rapid bursts of gunfire...
...next four hours, patrol cars howled through the streets of Caracas in pursuit of patrol cars. The army sent troops and armored cars to join the fight; cops by the hundreds chased around frantically trying to sort out friend from foe. An order went out to legitimate police to wrap white handkerchiefs around their heads. That only made them better targets. Rumors swept Caracas that the pro-Castro Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN) had attacked the prison and freed all 800 inmates. The report was proved false, but the FALN rejoiced in the publicity and Communist terrorists...
Hero of Goldwyn's sea saga was Albatross Owner Ira E. Dowd, president of American Hydrofoil Lines. During a subsequent stop in the East River, flagged down by a Coast Guard patrol boat, Dowd clambered topside to report details of the rescue, lost his footing and slipped overboard. It was 9:55 a.m. when the Albatross spewed her tardy commuters into Wall Street, 45 minutes late. All declared themselves staunchly in favor of hydrofoil commuting, though it takes nearly as long and costs approximately three times more ($100 a month) than commuting from Port Washington via the overland route...
...park owner stopped them, read the trespass law aloud. The marchers remained silent-but they did not leave the premises. Said Chief Lally: "You can leave or you can be arrested." Still the group was silent. Police moved in, placed them under arrest, led them politely to a waiting patrol wagon...
...saltwater drag racing are out of the way (PT 109 wins the race, but smashes into the dock when Cowboy Kennedy slams the engines into reverse at high speed and conks them out), the film takes on a measure of verve and dash. Best scene is the nighttime patrol when, running without lights, Kennedy's PT suddenly comes under the prow of a blacked-out Japanese destroyer and PT 109's plywood hull is sliced through like an orange crate. There is a moment of silence, then a crackling as the sea becomes molten with flaming fuel...