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...Shrimp" Hamilton, by dropping in at the lunch counter of Houston's Keystone Drugstore to buy a cup of coffee and a 6-oz. jar of hot "Evangeline peppers" (leaving a $1 tip). He took a stroll downtown in that city, and paused to speak with a traffic policeman, Ignacio Aranda. He chatted with U.S. astronauts and Soviet technicians at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, lauding their courage for never "giving up," not even during dire emergencies in space...
...church-state dispute was further complicated last week by the execution of a young anarchist, Salvador Puig Antrich, 26, for the murder of a policeman in Barcelona. Puig was a Catalan, a member of Spain's other belligerent minority, and his death was the first political execution in a decade. It touched off protest marches all round the country. Many Spaniards were appalled by the fact that Puig had been killed by garroting.* In protest, Camilo José Cela, Spain's best-known contemporary novelist (The Family of Pascual Duarte, Pavilion of Repose), refused to take his seat...
...while serving a 17-month term for attempted extortion. Prison authorities, hesitant at first, became so enthusiastic about the workshop that they let Dellinger continue it after his parole. He gets some help from such guests as TV Writer-Producer Rod Serling and Joseph Wambaugh, Los Angeles literary policeman (who last week quit the force to write full time). During his visit, Wambaugh offered Bonanno a cop's role on his TV show Police Story. Bonanno said thanks, but no, "I haven't been that rehabilitated...
July 7. Anthony Ulasewicz, a former New York City policeman recruited to help distribute payments secretly to the break-in defendants, delivered approximately $25,000 in cash to William O. Bittman in Washington. Bittman was Hunt's attorney...
Director Sidney Lumet and screenwriters Waldo Salt and Norman Wexler follow the structure of the Peter Maas biography. The portrait of the wounded Serpico, being shuttled to a hospital from Harlem, hooks us as the film opens; we then flashback to the highlights of the policeman's career and life. These chart the growth of the man's disillusionment and discontent, as well as the strength of his personal integrity. The film develops with its title character: the derailment of Serpico's life both by those police who were corrupt and those who refused to inflict punishment, carries as much...