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...seven months. This week, unless there is a last-minute change of mind, the Big Board will announce that it has found the man for the $125,000-a-year post. He is Robert W. Haack, 50, who as head of the National Association of Securities Dealers has been policeman of the nation's over-the-counter securities market for the past three years...
...that bound him to a chair, he cried: "I am Jesus Christ!" Moments later, a pellet of potassium cyanide was dropped into a solution of dilute sulfuric acid, and blowers began sucking the lethal gas upward. Within twelve minutes, Aaron Mitchell, 37, who was convicted of slaying a Sacramento policeman during a 1963 tavern holdup, was dead. He was the first man to be executed in California in four years and the first in the U.S. this year...
...June, 1966, the force took its greatest step in the direction of full police status. Several years ago, a campus policeman at Tufts made an arrest on the Tufts campus, a right later challenged by the arrested man's lawyer. Court action led to a Massachusetts state law which provided university police "with the same power to make arrests as regular police officers for any criminal offense committed in or upon lands owned, used, or occupied" by the university. The Harvard University Police were the first in the state sworn in under the new statute...
...University Police also provide students with personal and unofficial services. Dean Monro often sends students in trouble to Chief Tonis, whose law degree enables him to serve as "a semi-legal authority." And one senior remembers when his wallet was stolen on a Saturday night his Freshman year. The policeman on duty asked him if he had a date, and when the student replied that he did and had no money, the officer lent him ten dollars and told him "to bring it back sometime...
...Enough Training. Under Tennessee law, a policeman is empowered to use deadly force if he is in danger of great bodily harm-and possibly even if he only thinks he is. Concluding its hearings, the grand jury has just refused to indict Patrolman Jackson...