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...Burr (pop. 101 and getting smaller-"I don't look for it to last much longer," Steinkuhler sighs) is more than farfetched. When the All-America teams are announced, Burr will become the smallest town to have produced an All-America. It is a place without a policeman, or a need for one. From kindergarten through eighth grade, Steinkuhler attended country school in the company of three classmates, one of them a girl. "We had to round up everybody in town to play any sort of sport," he says. "We drank a lot of pop in Burr and mowed...
...Boston and there has just been an accident in front of the Harvard-affiliated Deaconness Hospital. A taxicab has crashed into a passenger car. The Harvard Police patrol car assigned to the Medical Area arrives at the scene and takes down the cab operator's license. While one policeman remains at the scene of the accident, the other telephones in the license number to the department's Garden Street headquarters. Within minutes, a national check on the driver's record has been performed. Police arrest Bruce Nance, 42, of Boston, on rape charges; Nance has been wanted for five years...
...avoid the puddle I saw the mystery, the unspeakable wrongness, of cutting a life short when it is in full tide." Shooting an Elephant (1936) portrays "the dirty work of Empire at close quarters." A rampaging elephant in Moulmein has killed a native, and the people expect the policeman to do something: "Here was I, the white man with his gun, standing in front of the unarmed native crowd-seemingly the leading actor of the piece; but in reality I was only an absurd puppet pushed to and fro by the will of those yellow faces behind. I perceived...
...Harvard Square dozens of students were standing by the kiosk, waiting for the extras to begin to arrive. A man in painter's overalls was arguing with a policeman about putting the flag over the Coop at half-mast...
...filming this fall of a made-for-TV movie, Adam. By coincidence, the show aired a week before Toole's prison confession, which he later recanted. But police still consider him the case's prime suspect. "He knows things only the murderer could know," says one Florida policeman...