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Sylvester Wrenn, the University policeman on duty at the dance, attributed the loss of the wallets to inadequate protection. He estimated the crowd at 1200 and said, "There were too many people and not enough supervisors. Two men can't watch that many people...
Describing the summer in a fairly quiet town like Gulfport, Miss Lake reported that there were "three or four arrests, one beating, and about 1000 obscene phone calls." She spoke of one white assailant, who called out to a nearby policeman "I got 'em Jack...
...attack took place at about 4:15 p.m. on Bow St. in front of "A" and "B" entries of Adams House. The business student, Roy A. Safanda, fought off the youths and complained to a nearby University policeman...
...with nobility, scurrility, offstage virility, plight, blight, violent demise and intentions tragically mistaken. The locale is Rome. The heroine is Adriana, an aristocratic Italian beauty. One day, she is struck down by that scourge of modern-day Italy, a Vespa. She is helped to her feet by an imposing policeman, Captain Falconieri, in whom any reasonably perceptive reader can discern the ingredients of a true lover: "Above all, in the powerful current of masculinity beamed towards her." The current, however, is short-circuited by calamities-knifings, renunciations, drownings and tears. Wiser and weepier at the novel's end, Adriana...
...favelados were saddened by the loss of the only policeman they ever liked, the cops were left completely at loose ends. Though Perpétuo's killer was quickly captured at the scene, Horseface was still at large, and a milling, uncoordinated hunt for him was mounted. In the last two weeks police have pulled in 500 smalltime hoods for their own brand of "questioning," have descended en masse on dozens of favelas. Brandishing machine guns, they burst in on one surprised family and so frightened the father that he died of a heart attack. Last week the police...