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MUCH of the humor in Michael Bronsk's Man for Man derives from jokes that would seem dated on the most ordinary television situation comedy. Most jokes are on the order of a character's exclamation at a policeman's inopportune knock: "Don't just stand there... panic!" Many of these jokes seem dated in Man for Man as well as on television. But other do not, largely because the plot of Man for Man is a bit less bland than most situation comedies: at the end of the play, for example, four out of the eight male characters...
High Prices. With Sam Ervin's committee still in recess, local preoccupations could get a hearing. Los Angeles and Denver laid plans for new mass transit systems. California's legislature voted to restore the death penalty for eleven specific categories of offenses, ranging from killing a policeman to causing a fatality by willfully wrecking a train; the state thus hoped to meet the Supreme Court's objections to indiscriminate capital punishment. South Dakota and Missouri debated ways to make their state governments more efficient. Portland, Ore., talked of saving electricity by eliminating high school football games...
...Miss Mitford. In 9,000,000 crimes committed in a typical year, only 1½% of the criminals are imprisoned. Second argument: the threat of a prison sentence deters criminals. Miss Mitford cites contrary, though slightly equivocal evidence. Between 1961 and 1966, the penalty in California for assaulting a policeman with a deadly weapon rose from a minimum sentence of one year in jail to a minimum of five and a maximum of life. During the same five years, attacks on Los Angeles policemen rose from 8.4 per 100 officers per year...
...planned open-car motorcade down bustling Canal Street was abruptly canceled on the recommendation of the Secret Service. One cause for suspicion focused on a group of Black Panthers who had allegedly met and discussed the President's assassination. The other concerned an eccentric 29-year-old ex-policeman, Edwin M. Gaudet...
...trunks"), fake uniforms and, for one highly imaginative venture, an electric minisubmarine of the type used occasionally by cigarette smugglers on the border lakes between Switzerland and Italy. Inside his villa office, which is adorned with zebra skins, African spears, various weapons and the hat of an East German policeman (Vopo) given him by a grateful client, Lenzlinger proudly produced for Kroon purported dossiers on some of his escape exploits...