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...furniture mover and Nazi cultist named Frederick W. Cowan, 33. returned to his job after a two-week suspension and exploded in a St. Valentine's Day massacre. Packing five guns, he burst into his moving company's warehouse, shot to death four co-workers and a policeman, wounded five other people, then put one of his guns to his head and blew his brains...
Died. John F. Dowd, 60, who served as Time Inc.'s chief editorial counsel for 28 years; of heart disease; in Boston. The son of a New York City policeman, Dowd was graduated from St. John's University and Harvard Law School, and worked briefly for a Wall Street firm before coming to TIME as its first in-house counsel. To protect the magazine from lawsuits charging libel or invasion of privacy, Dowd read nearly every word slated for publication, and he was welcomed by the editors as a resourceful partner in this effort. "Any lawyer...
...Last fall, Chin testified in a case involving a Stratford, Conn., policeman named Joseph Berke, who was convicted of having bugged the town hall, ostensibly to aid himself in the state examination for promotion. The bugs were discovered by electricians, and at the trial Chin testified that he had sold the cop a listening device-key testimony that helped convict Berke. Investigators theorize that Chin may have been rubbed out by someone else who had been using his equipment illegally and, hearing about the Berke case, decided that the bug maker had become too talkative for comfort. Then again, almost...
...countries were taking Helsinki seriously-or acting as if they were. According to a tale that has been repeated with local variations in virtually every Communist country in Europe, a grandmother goes to the police station in Pinsk and requests permission to visit her sister in The Bronx. The policeman just shakes his head. The old lady then pulls out of her string shopping bag the tattered pages from Pravda reproducing the text of the Helsinki agreement. "It says here, young man, on page 3, section A-Contacts and Regular Meetings on the Basis of Family Ties-that...
When the "hot-shot-cop from Minnesota," as some Harvard patrolmen ambivalently refer to their chief, came here in 1975, he initiated major changes in the role of the Harvard policeman, and today the Police Association claims these changes have precipitated "distrust" and "low morale" in the force...