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...recent monograph, The President's Medal, 1789-1977. For others, contemporary events have provided subjects: Associate Editor David Tinnin's forthcoming I, Terrorist examines the motivations of terrorists; Correspondent James Willwerth's new Badge of Madness is about the breakdown of one New York policeman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jan. 23, 1978 | 1/23/1978 | See Source »

...foreign policy. "We can't be the world's policeman, but we can be the world's idealist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: No Hemming, Hawing or Quitting | 1/23/1978 | See Source »

Choir practice, according to Policeman turned Novelist Joseph Wambaugh, is a harness-bull euphemism for what cops do together off duty to relieve the tensions of their enervating jobs. It appears to consist mainly of boozing, wenching and venting gripes against their superiors and the semimilitary system in which they toil. It follows that the participants in these raunchy revels are The Choirboys. The movie of the same title just got in under the New Year's Day wire as 1977's most repulsive release, but Hollywood will have to go some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sour Notes | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

...method which shortens the day of blood, the suffering to us will be a price we are willing to pay. In any case, we suffer already, our children are often undernourished, and on a small scale (so far) we die at the whim of a policeman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Telling White Lies | 12/13/1977 | See Source »

McLaughlin returned to Rose Hill in the fall of 1970 to become an assistant coach under Richard "Digger" Phelps. The Digger's father worked as an undertaker. McLaughlin's father was a New York City policeman, who worked his way up to the rank of detective in the Bronx district attorney's office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Old Acquaintance | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

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