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...threw out Mossadegh, Brainless led his knife-armed toughs on tours of the polling places. Systematically, Brainless pulled voters out of line, searched their pockets for an anti-government ballot. When he found one, the voter was cuffed or stabbed, then turned over to the nearest policeman to be arrested and carted off to jail. Occasionally Shaban sheared off the hair of the victim...
...sheriff in Las Vegas, Nev.). Although Gugel got back his job as police chief after he was acquitted on the nonfeasance charge, he still faced a federal indictment for his attack on Photographer Bailey. Last week in a U.S. District Court in Covington, Ky., a federal jury found that Policeman Gugel had exceeded his powers, convicted him of violating Photographer Bailey's civil rights and fined him $1,000 plus court costs. Said District judge MacSwinford: "Bailey was performing his duties and had a right to take pictures [and] the right to his liberty. [He] took the pictures...
Dangerous Mission (RKO Radio) is a misguided tour of Glacier National Park in which the public inspects such unnatural phenomena as a studio glacier, a special-effects forest fire, an avalanche in miniature and Victor Mature. Actor Mature is a policeman from New York who has gone west to put the arm on a murder-case witness (Piper Laurie). One look at Piper and he offers both arms...
...electronic policeman is there to shepherd the student across, gouging his strength and competitive spirit, leaving him dependent and weak. Other schools have football, Harvard should at least have dangerous crossings, where dodge or be struck is the rule and pedestrians eye one another with mutual respect. Massachusetts Avenue must not be turned into a Welfare Street, an intellectual game preserve. Keep the Freedom of the Roads...
...flood of Dragnet fan mail suggests that the U.S. completely forgets that it is a nation of incipient cop haters when its eyes are glued on Webb's show; that it has gained a new appreciation of the underpaid, long-suffering ordinary policeman, and in many cases its first rudimentary understanding of real-life law enforcement. As Sergeant Friday-a decent, harassed, hard-working fellow-Jack Webb is such a convincingly realistic detective that many a cop has written in to ask if he is not a genuine member of the Los Angeles Police Department...