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...time city police arrived, however, the band had returned to its buses, and was ready to leave. Nine prowl cars and about 15 patrolmen halted the caravan and, with police aboard, the buses were taken to a nearby precinct station house, where Strauss was booked as responsible since he is band leader, and Upton was charged as a token representative of the group...

Author: By Jack Rosenthal, | Title: Band Faces Court Action After 3 a.m. Yale Concert | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

...clock one morning last week, two Texas state highway patrolmen spotted a flashy new green Mercury hardtop convertible barreling into the shadowed outskirts of Houston with a "suspicious" young man at the wheel. They pulled him to the side of the road and peered into the car. A blonde girl of 15 was sitting beside him. The driver, one Alton Franks, 19, explained that the girl was his wife. The cops grunted noncommittally and asked for his driver's license. He had none. Then they spotted a .38-caliber pistol on the back seat. They hauled Franks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRISONS: Good Samaritan | 6/15/1953 | See Source »

Electronic Countermeasures. In Jackson, Miss., highway patrolmen were looking for the motorists suspected of building short-wave radio transmitters to jam the police radar speed detection system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 8, 1953 | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

Last month, with drought searing Mexico and spring crops ripening in the U.S., the patrolmen caught an army of 73,176 along the 1,700-mile border. All were escorted back across the line. But for every one who was caught, at least one, and probably more, safely got past the patrols. This week the wetbacks were seeping across the border at a record-breaking rate-two a minute, day & night. "Like ants," said Chief Patrol Inspector Ed Parker. "They're swarming over the desert like ants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: The Ants | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

Question & Answer. In Buffalo, Charles Anderson was fined $15 for sneering at Patrolmen William Moslow and Charles Hahn and asking whether they were "real policemen or boy scouts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 20, 1953 | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

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