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...Cuban freighter Imias has been swinging idly at anchor between two locks in the Panama Canal since Oct. 3. Throughout that tune a U.S. Zone policeman hi a tiny launch has circled the ship with unceasing vigilance. The bizarre scene is part of an international legal tangle that involves money, politics, diplomacy, a violent coup, and howls from all sides directed at the U.S. and the federal judge who is responsible for the launch's vigil...
...Rindge, but their time is taken up with keeping the canaille from destroying the bathrooms or stealing pencils. The good students go begging because the School Committee and the courts are so "responsive" to the parents that the teacher has to spend too much of his time acting as policeman. Donald E. Steele
This continues uninterrupted for a while, until a new character is brought in to complicate the already frenetic interactions. Her Majesty's representative for mental health, Dr. Rance (Andrew Brooks) has been sent to evaluate Dr. Prentice and with the help of one more character, a policeman, succeeds only in complicating matters beyond the point of tedium...
Miss Barclay dresses up as the bellboy, the bellboy dresses up as Miss Barclay and then as the policeman, and Dr. Rance displays his psychiatric knowledge by pronouncing everyone mad who attempts to explain their versions of what is happening. "I'm not interested in your explanations," he tells them, "I can provide...
...huddled with three students behind a metal kiosk. Suddenly, a student dashed across the intersection and hurled a rock at a glaring mercury street lamp. A policeman fired a round at him; the bullet ripped through the kiosk and into the shoulder of the student to my left. Groaning, he slumped over in the arms of his friend, blood oozing through his starched white shirt...