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Last month another ring of prospering foreign traders was broken up in the Moslem Soviet Republic of Uzbekistan. Alas, a railroad policeman was on the platform of Tashkent's station when coins clinked at the feet of an elderly beggar. The cop discovered that the coins were solid gold and bore the face of Czar Nicholas...
Cars & Antics. At six, he was the star of the Rinky Dinks, a touring children's team coached by his father, a policeman in Princeton (pop. 8,231). At 15, he was a high-scoring All-State guard for Princeton High, and the first out-of-state college scouts started coming around. By the time he was 17 and a high school senior, the offers had grown to "slightly more than 100." One school promised him plenty of spending money, another a car. Four offered to pay his way through medical school, provide free housing if he married...
...back until he again ranked as the No. 1 challenger-but a title fight for a man knocked out so easily seemed far away. Heavyweight Champion Sonny Liston might agree to fight, but would anybody come to see it? Fortnight ago, on a highway near Vallejo, Calif., a state policeman found Machen in a parked car with a loaded gun, muttering about committing suicide. Bundled off to Napa State Hospital, he went berserk, knocked out two attendants. Last week, described by doctors as an "acute schizophrenic," his boxing career apparently at an end, Eddie Machen, 30, was committed...
Although the word "brutality" was never openly mentioned, Washington's defense hinged around the fact that the 220-pound Boston policeman whom he is accused of assaulting (Washington weighs 134 pounds) used excessive roughness and that he exceeded his authority when he and his partner apprehended Washington last week for "being abroad in the nighttime...
...weekend marked a new high point of peace and quiet for the Cambridge Police Department, and another low one for Yale Weekend rioting. The hand tried to hold a rally the night before the game, but apathy resigned as more policeman attended than students. "The riot," declared the CRIMSON, "was a flop...