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...their positions at the head of the line, which by noon stretches across the parking lot. When the door opens, they trot forward, gaining speed as they gallop through the warehouse, swerve around the cash register and slide past a World War II-vintage sign of a cutout policeman holding up a warning DO NOT RUN OR PUSH. One by one they pop out into the yard, their shirts and hats festooned with bits of masking tape made into instant claim markers. SOLD: JDGL. The rule, only occasionally broken, is that the person who marks it first gets it. What...
...arena. The author, 31, grew up in a street-tough Irish Catholic society that had bred legions of police; he had known one of the officers in the case since boyhood. His father, a prominent Boston attorney who took on the widow's case, is himself a former policeman. Thus the book depicts the racial consciousness and social mores of big-city police with fairness, even compassion. That is especially striking because a chilling incident brought the author aboard as an investigator: soon after his father took the case, the son was mysteriously assaulted by police and hospitalized...
Just as Gray Line Tours Driver Richard Pierson called his passengers' attention to the Beverly Hills Hotel during a tour of the fabled neighborhood of the stars, a policeman stopped him for invading the exclusive area. That incident in July and others like it sent three tour companies to court in protest. Last week Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Leon Savitch allowed Beverly Hills to continue barring buses carrying tourists eager to glimpse the likes of Gary Grant or Lucille Ball, or at least to see where they lived...
...John Davison Rockefeller Sr. leaned forward from the back seat of his Lincoln limousine, which had been halted in Matawan, N.J., by Policeman Sproul, to answer the policeman's question. Certainly, replied Mr. Rockefeller, the officer might stand on his running board and his chauffeur ("Phillips") might overtake a speeder the officer desired to apprehend. Mr. Rockefeller sank back again into the cushions, peered out at a mile of landscape which slipped by in about one, minute, watched the officer hand their quarry a summons, handed the officer five new dimes...
...guys seen a flag?" Rabinowitz recalled the policeman asking...