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...vote had struck down part of Louisiana's new capital-punishment statute because it mandated death for all those convicted of first-degree murder. It did not deal specifically, however, with a section of the law mandating execution for cop killers. When a man who had killed a policeman appealed his conviction to the Supreme Court, State Attorney General William J. Guste Jr. conceded that he could not be executed. Guste was therefore no little surprised when the Justices announced that they would hear arguments on why a mandatory death penalty for the killing of a policeman might...
...Massachusetts state law requires policeman and firefighters to live within a ten miles radius of the municipality they work in. Sgt. Harold Murphy, secretary of the Cambridge Police Association, said that it is not clear whether the radius is drawn from the city hall or the city limits...
Murphy said he does not know "whether or not it's enforceable. We have not had any test cases." Some policeman may live outside both radii, he added...
...banners proclaiming "Death and Slaughter" and "Glory and the Grave," unfurled as the policemen prepare to combat the pirates; the purposeful delay in starting Major General Stanley's famous patter song ("I am the very model of a modern Major General"); the instantaneous characterization of the last policeman as a bumbler out of step with the rest. But more impressive is Seltzer's general handling of the cast--not only the leads, most of whom could do this sort of thing in their sleep by now, but the two choruses, whose members take on a life and individuality of their...
...reasons this version of Pirates is so good is a lack of egregious weaknesses among the leads. Patty Woo is suitably mournful as Frederic's former nurse, and John Corenswet, as the Sergeant of Police, sings the famous "A policeman's lot is not a happy one" with a straight-faced sincerity that makes his an appropriate foil to the zany police chorus. Of all the major performances, only Gregrey Gorden's Pirate King sounds a sour note. Gorden lacks the bellowing bass and comic belligerence to sustain his caricature of the English peer gone wrong. Perhaps some fiercer make...