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...likely that such ecological chaos may occur, but there have been so many melodramatic warnings about it in essays and speculative fantasies such as this that urgency becomes blunted and worn through repetition. Heston, forsaking his granite stoicism for once, makes a properly gruff policeman, but it is likely that Soylent Green will be most remembered for the last appearance of Edward G. Robinson, who plays a cantankerous intellectual. In a rueful irony, his death scene, in which he is hygienically dispatched with the help of piped-in light classical music and movies of rich fields flashed before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Quick Cuts | 4/30/1973 | See Source »

Three East Cambridge youths were convicted Tuesday of assaulting a Cambridge policeman on March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Convicted in Policeman Assault; All Charges Against Officer Dismissed | 4/27/1973 | See Source »

Robert Tonis, chief of Harvard police, said yesterday that no Harvard policeman could legally arrest the suspect unless the officer had actually witnessed the crime...

Author: By Robert Field, | Title: Three Students Nab Bike Thief Outside Dunster | 4/26/1973 | See Source »

...heavy traffic that threatened to wreck their timetable, the Arabs raced conspicuously down the oncoming traffic lane of Grivas Avenue and through a series of red traffic lights. Other cars had to brake suddenly to avoid collisions, and one of these cars was driven by an off-duty policeman. He immediately alerted headquarters to have the "crazy driver" of the Morris picked up "before he kills someone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: A Mission That Failed | 4/23/1973 | See Source »

While police were closing in on the Arabs as traffic violators, the would-be assassins screeched to a halt outside the three-story apartment building where Ambassador Timor lives with his wife and two children. One Arab fired a burst of his submachine gun at a Cypriot policeman on guard outside the building, seriously wounding him in the chest. Another planted a large handbag filled with dynamite at the main entrance. The Arabs were apparently unaware of two things: that there was another entrance closer to Timor's apartment, and that Timor had already left, five minutes earlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: A Mission That Failed | 4/23/1973 | See Source »

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