Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...revolt had cost Perón some of his power. But if the Cabinet included Perón's chosen cronies-Minister of Education Mendez San Martin, a spark plug of the anti-church campaign; Minister of Interior Angel Gabriel Borlenghi, the old Cabinet's boss policeman; and Minister of Technical Affairs Raul Mende, top political hatchetman-then Perón would be announcing to the world that he was firmly and defiantly back in full control...
...promptly let fly across the stage with a bowling ball and scored a clean-and noisy-strike. Kostelanetz beamed at the rumble and thud. A few minutes later the music sped up to sound like a bustling city: a rescue-squad man started a wailing siren, a park policeman astride his motorcycle to the right of the stage blew his whistle...
...never used so many effects before," said Grofé. But he had no cause to worry about his amateur specialists. The motorcycle policeman took the assignment in stride ("I don't feel much different; I can handle it") and the siren man was even more blasé about his symphonic debut ("Doesn't bother me; I used to be in the Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School Band"). Sally Herman, who does the barking, is a 25-year-old credit assistant at George Washington University Hospital. She landed the job unexpectedly by winning an audition over five real dogs...
...Vegas." So Louis Hoffner, 28 years old, went off to serve his life sentence in Clinton Prison, Dannemora, N.Y. But outside Dannemora, more and more voices were insisting that Hoffner was innocent. A policeman friend of the family, an attorney, a New York World-Telegram reporter, set to work to dig up the irregularities, and they found plenty, e.g., that Louis Hoffner's prosecutors had in effect concealed the shaky identification in the lineup. In November 1952, Louis Hoffner was set free...
Countering the Terror. At week's end, Policeman Wybot returned to Paris with a head full of facts and names, and the Faure government steeled itself to act against the suspects, some of whom were reputedly lodged in embarrassingly high places. As a start, special detectives sent from Paris arrested a man long suspected of organizing counter-terrorism- one time Chief Police Inspector Jean Delrieu, once head of the Casablanca police unit charged with combatting Arab terrorism...