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Newark people did what city dwellers always do when faced with the inexplicable: they called the police. The police department had no map of Newark's sewer system. A sergeant and six patrolmen entered the sewer, carrying ropes, flashlights, a portable telephone, a Tommy gun. Under East Orange, four miles away, they were driven back by sewer gas. Next morning, twelve hours after the cow was last seen, two sewer employes heard moos coming from a manhole, climbed 20 feet underground, and there she was. Waving flashlights, crying "So boss," they backed the baffled animal through the echoing pipes...
...land in order not to get the naval station, a "naval secret," in the background of the picture. When the occupants of the boat nastily surrendered, the Navy could not agree how close in shore they should not have come (one officer said 100 yards, another 50 yards; State patrolmen said the boundary was farther out in the lake...
...policemen but U.S. Border Patrolmen guard the 900-odd Italians who are detained at scenic Missoula because there is no way of deporting them. The detainees (never referred to as prisoners) govern themselves, spend their time reading, listening to the radio, playing games, doing chores for pin money. They are not forced to work. Name of the camp, chosen by the inmates, is "Bella Vista" (see cuts...
...lunch hour in Manhattan and all over the city waiters with flawless manners were getting orders wrong and with many an expert nourish placing the scrambled eggs before the man who ordered stuffed veal. Suddenly 40 immigration officials, 40 Canadian border patrolmen and 100 city detectives sprang from nowhere, seized 70 Italian waiters, and spread consternation through the $2-luncheon belt...
...into the street the operator yelled "Holdup! Murder!" The cry spread. Two patrolmen raced from the corner, into the store, a long way behind...