Word: plainclothesmen
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...with daughter Leonora, 12, and son Jacobito, 7, his wife and 16 cronies, he took off into the night sky. It was still dark when he landed in Mexico City, the most important refugee to reach there since Leon Trotsky in 1937. His only greeter, aside from reporters and plainclothesmen, was Mexico's leftist Senator Luis Rodriguez, onetime Ambassador to Guatemala...
...muggy night last week, two detectives walked out of their precinct station across from Louis Sobel Park in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. One of the plainclothesmen had worked the district for 31 years. He remembered when it was a "real swell" neighborhood. Now it is seedy. Not a slum, not by any definition the worst part of New York, but a down-at-heels place where respectable people, said the policeman, are not safe outdoors at night...
Government officials hurriedly convened in local Falangist headquarters, saw to it that the courtroom was packed with Falangists and plainclothesmen as the second day's proceedings opened. Ordinary Vitorians could not get in. Secretly the trial was rushed to an end that spelled defeat for the prosecution. Last week, although the prosecution had demanded severe sentences for all, 15 of the accused were acquitted or released with light sentences that they were deemed to have already served. Two were sentenced to six years in prison. When the defense lawyers came out, an old woman seized Lacort's hand...
...Heir Richard J. Reynolds Jr., sang a $35,000 swan song. Soon off to luxuriate in California, Marianne said farewell to Florida in the style to which Reynolds had accustomed her. Under the bleak gaze of ten gate-guarding cops, 160 servants, two firemen and some 15 dinner-jacketed plainclothesmen who mingled but did not fraternize, about 300 guests jammed for warmth (evening temperature: 48°) into two satin-draped tents pitched on Marianne's lawn. They guzzled 200 bottles of pink champagne (price: $11 a fifth) and torrents of other beverages, ate their way through flocks of guinea...
...three plainclothesmen on the case, but we haven't got him yet," the chief stated...