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Toohy, the new acting chief, worked at the College during the '30's in a watchman-policeman position and was promoted to Lieutenant rank in 1951. He is 50 years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Police Chief Fired | 3/21/1953 | See Source »

...regard for the golf club's sensibilities, the cops housed the gallows in a corrugated iron stockade with only the gallows bar peeping over the top. Nearby, in a makeshift corrugated iron cell, they penned eight Mau Mau tribesmen, convicted of the murder of three officials: a Negro policeman, a Negro agricultural adviser and a Kikuyu headman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLONIES: Gallows on the Golf Course | 3/9/1953 | See Source »

...begun chasing a speeder near New Haven, and after miles of pursuit had finally flagged his quarry down. But as he got out of his patrol car, the speeder-a dark-haired youth in a grey overcoat-had pulled a pistol, fired once and driven away. The policeman muttered the first three digits of the youth's Massachusetts license number: 169. He gasped: "Go to the car radio and call." The Navy man obeyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: A Trooper's Last Words | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

...gale whipped the trees along Tel Aviv's Rothschild Boulevard and tore at the policeman on guard before the Soviet legation to Israel. While he patrolled the front, someone neatly clipped a hole in a wire fence at the rear, crept through and placed a bomb-six pounds of high explosives in a thin metal container-against a wall of the somber grey stone legation. The bomb went off with a crash that shook Tel Aviv and sent diplomatic shock tremors across the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Diplomatic Explosion | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

Kenya's white settlers blame Kimathi for the recent murder of Planter Roger Ruck, his wife and six-year-old son, hacked to pieces as they strolled in their garden in their pajamas. One white policeman, a friend of the Rucks, is flushing the jungle alone, determined to get Kimathi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: Frontier War | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

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