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While the officers said they appreciated theawards, they added they might have preferred a newcontract. "I got two awards, I still need acontract. If they want me to do as good job as aHarvard policeman, they have to make it worth mywhile," said Officer Edward Sheridan, who washonored for disarming an armed person in QuincyHouse and catching a thief who stole $1300 ofstereo equipment
...lights go up, the audience is transported to a mythic New York City underworld in which all of the guys--and a curious policeman--are desperately trying to find out where Nathan Detroit (Nick Davis) is going to hold his famous floating craps game next. Meanwhile, over at the Hot Box dance club, Nathan's fiance of 14 years, Miss Adelaide (Lisa Tornell) is putting on another show with the dolls...
...Dawie Crous, a traffic policeman: "It's easy to hate blacks. I've seen enough crime and senseless stuff among black drivers on the roads to wonder what the hell would happen if these guys were the ones laying down the law. I have to be honest and say that I feel more comfortable with my own people, that means Afrikaner people. But we all know that changes will have to come. I can't say I feel threatened...
...citizens. The realities of urbanization mock that fantasy, and anyone wandering around Cape Town or Johannesburg today can see blacks sitting next to whites in restaurants or lining up in the same banking queue to be served by a black teller. Nobody is surprised to observe a black traffic policeman ticketing a white who ran a stop sign, or even a black-and-white couple holding hands as they wander into a video-rental store...
...work. The downtown Havana bus stop was already crowded. A foreign visitor buying a newspaper at a nearby stand offered a dollar bill to the vendor, a wizened and near blind old man. He eagerly accepted it and carefully counted the change in Cuban centavos. Moments later, a policeman, obviously summoned by the crowd, was glaring sternly at the vendor. Dollar transactions are not allowed in Cuba, an onlooker explained. The old man ruefully handed the greenback to the visitor...