Word: plainclothesmen
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...parole, for, as one Yugoslav exile put it, "his life is politics. You might as well ask him to stop breathing." Last week, incorrigibly still breathing politics, Djilas, 51, was arrested for the fourth time in seven years. In bed when policemen knocked, Djilas shaved and dressed while three plainclothesmen and an investigating judge ransacked his apartment, seized some papers and manuscripts. Then Tito's onetime possible successor was whisked off to jail. The likely charge (under a new law specifically designed for people like Djilas and rushed through last month): publishing memoirs containing information damaging to the state...
...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...