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...living. Neither the Rajputs, nor the Moguls, nor the British ever established in India a state whose police reached out to the ordering of people's daily lives. Now, with independence, with the possibility of modern states, each community saw behind the other the shadow of the policeman and the propagandist. The Indian communities rushed into violence not to seize power, but out of the fear of the power that was about to fall into the hands of others. And this is a primal fear, deeper than rivalries between such nations as have already known and submitted to police...
...Matters. Everything went smoothly until one morning last week, when the lecturer injected some personal hygiene instruction into the program. Painted faces grew redder as he discussed physiological details, with blackboard drawings. Autumn Fragrance and Jade Object nervously lighted cigarettes, violating the ban on smoking in class. When a policeman reprimanded them, they angrily retorted that they Would not listen to such "obscene speech." The policeman drew a pistol, but a moment later retreated before the screaming and clawing girls...
...scornful. of the traditional figure of Jehovah: "Any mother who suckles her babe upon her own breast, any bitch in fact who litters her periodical brood of pups, presents to my imagination a vastly nearer and sweeter Divine charm. . . . Against this lurid power-half-pedagogue, half-policeman, but wholly imbecile in both aspects-I . . . raise my gleeful fist, I lift my scornful foot." This kind of "elegant Billingsgate," as his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson called it, found almost no audience...
...press card like a hand grenade. He had been waved to the curb by a cop for blowing his horn too loudly in traffic. Becker, who was driving his wife home from the New York Yankees' victory dinner, had made an attempt to square things. He told the policeman: "Look, officer, I'm a working newspaperman. We were in a hurry. I'm sorry...
That did it. By week's end, two of the cops were suspended without pay, the newspapers were black with the story, and Mayor Bill O'Dwyer had directed the prosecuting attorney to investigate the third policeman and to take the photographer's case to the grand jury. New York's Police Commissioner Arthur W. Wallander cried: "There must be no more assaults on our good people. . . . Courtesy must be the watchword of this department...