Word: plainclothesmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Plainclothesmen with walkie-talkies closed in on the Crimeds' early morning operations, but the first man they caught had a Yale bursar's card and was able to convince the police that the parody was actually a genuine "Yalie Dailie." It was not until several minutes after he had left their office that the police realized their mistake and set out after the offender and his colleagues...
...cherche une fille!" the crowd roars back, and plainclothesmen throughout the hall go up onto the balls of their feet for fear the next quiver may start World War III. Singing easily, about half the time in English, he is more reserved than Presley ("I used to flop down on the floor, but I stopped that because I didn't think it was respectable"); but his diction is remarkably similar: somehow, in French, he has acquired a unique hillbilly accent...
...leave Alcatraz on bail ($100,000). After seeking to wash away the taint of his 82-day imprisonment with five successive hot baths, the longtime West Coast gambling czar flew home to his Carousel ice cream parlor in suburban Los Angeles and, as a pair of conspicuously inconspicuous plainclothesmen crunched cones at the counter, proceeded to stake out the future. Top items on the agenda: a call on his aging mother, a thank-you note to Justice Douglas, and a reunion with his showgirl friend, Sandy Hagen, 22. Insisted Mickey, for all the world as though he had beaten...
...public functions, Betancourt mingles closely with his people, sitting at a table surrounded by the throng, pushing his way through densely packed crowds. He has the standard complement of aides and plainclothesmen spotted around to keep an eye out for enemies. The pistol is a little personal troubleshooter...
...street is a long line of hole-in-the-wall shops. From the sidewalks rises a babble, mostly in the English peculiar to New York, but also in Russian, German, Yiddish, Hungarian, Flemish and Dutch. Plainclothesmen unobtrusively roam the block, and inside the buildings armed guards watch passers-by through bulletproof windows. But for all its crowded and wary atmosphere, Manhattan's West 47th Street is the most sparkling street in town because it is the hub of the U.S.'s $500 million annual diamond market...