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...told the seminar, "It's an understatement to say there was very little humor in the Nixon White House, and much of what there was was inadvertent." For example: Nixon's comments to reporters at the Great Wall of China ("It's truly a great wall"), to a motorcycle policeman who had just broken his arm and leg in an accident at the head of a presidential motorcade ("How do you like your job?"), to French dignitaries gathered for the & funeral of Charles de Gaulle ("It's a great day for Paris"). Buchwald noted that the presidency always provides good...
President Derek C. Bok decided to cancel the dinner because he said he wanted to prevent any injury to guests. No arrests were made, although there were about 30 policeman on the scene...
...months Deanna had implored her parents to stop using narcotics, but to no avail. After attending a church lecture by an off-duty policeman on the dangers of drug abuse, the junior-high-school student knew what she had to do. Several hours later she searched her house, collecting the incriminating evidence. "The talk she heard the night before," said a lawman, "was the straw that broke the camel's back." Deanna's parents were charged with one count each of coke possession. Their daughter was placed in a shelter for abused and abandoned children...
...Rendell fans, it may be a bit disappointing to learn that neither book features sly, plump, kindly old Reg Wexford and stern, judgmental, middle-aged John Burden. Live Flesh rests instead on a daring premise: a released convict's obsessive determination to make a friend of the policeman whom he shot and paralyzed while resisting capture. The policeman and the reader are alternately encouraged to believe in this felon's capacity for rehabilitation and disillusioned by his consuming selfishness. Complicating the uneasy relationship is the criminal's growing attraction toward the woman whom the policeman means to marry and cannot...
Michigan Republicans last week also selected a candidate for Governor: William Lucas, who is black, Roman Catholic and a former policeman and FBI agent. While still a Democrat, Lucas was elected sheriff and then, in 1982, executive of populous (2.2 million) Wayne County, which includes Detroit. He switched parties 15 months...