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...week before, Tuller & Sons and Graham, two of them posing as telephone repairmen, had entered a bank in Arlington, Va., and tried to hold it up. They were interrupted before they could get away with any money, and in the gunfight that followed, both the bank manager and a policeman were killed. After the bandits made their escape, the FAA sent out a warning to airlines that they might try to hijack a plane. But the airlines get so many alerts of this kind that it is hard to act on all of them. Even if he had recognized them...
...Governor today, like that of Gilbert and Sullivan's policeman, is not a very happy one. Much of his former power has been usurped by the Federal Government. Prison riots or fiscal failures can tarnish his reputation. The Senate in recent elections has become the farm club of presidential succession, rather than the Governors' mansions, as in times past. Still, the job has compensations, and everywhere in the 18 states where gubernatorial campaigns are under way this fall the battles are vigorous. Some of the more interesting...
...what one Tel Aviv columnist calls "our new war of attrition." They are provided with government security suggestions that cover four pages. Embassies and consulates have been converted into veritable fortresses; in Manhattan, for instance, a potential visitor to the Israeli consulate not only has to pass a policeman but also faces locked doors, and must identify himself over an intercom before he is allowed to enter. In a European school for 1,500 Jewish children, security men have joined the faculty this term as coaches or "assistant administrators." "It's like the blitz," comments William Frankel, editor...
...Twin Falls, Idaho, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew attended a cocktail party for the men he has often used as foils: the reporters who cover him. Relaxed, smiling and exchanging wisecracks, he accepted the gag gift of a policeman's whistle from newsmen. That night, as he was heckled at the College of Southern Idaho, Agnew suddenly blew a piercing blast with his new toy and shouted: "Wrong!" The startled audience gasped, then broke into loud applause...
...army, Goren found a way for Orthodox soldiers to drive jeeps or operate equipment such as radar on the Sabbath by pointing out the soldier's compelling duty to preserve Israel's security. In a like vein, says Goren,"if it is essential [for an Orthodox policeman] to control traffic on the Sabbath, then the way must be found to do it within Halakhah...