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...York City, Police Commissioner Francis Adams announced plans for an experimental city-wide telecast of the daily police lineup. Eventually, TV sets will be placed in New York's 85 precinct stations so that almost all detectives will be able to attend the line-up without leaving their own commands...
...unprecedented New Year's party, tens of thousands of Moscow moppets have frolicked through the Kremlin, stuffing themselves with oranges and sweets provided by the Communist Party. Malenkov, along with other Soviet bosses, has made a point of stepping down from his fearful eminence to participate in precinct meetings of the party and the workers. He has been popping up in towns and villages all over European Russia to pump oldsters' hands and wave at the muzhiks from his train. His puppets in satellite Hungary have revived old-style coffee shops, which under Stalin were banned as "reactionary...
...before 9 in the evening, when impressionable moppets are supposedly in bed. But ABC's hour-long The Mask has broken the taboo by starting at 8 p.m. on Sunday nights. Only two future network shows are scheduled (a revival of Mr. & Mrs. North; and 21st Precinct, starring Paul Kelly) but they will probably do no more than replace other crime shows due to expire because of sponsor failure...
...they could make copies of their ballots to prove they had voted for Quirino's Liberal, ticket, as required by the men who bought their votes. In Pasay a city near Manila, armed toughs marched into several polling places and made off with the ballot boxes. In Precinct 99 of Manila, a masked man deposed the election commissioner and announced that he would count the votes. His tally: Quirino. 149; Magsaysay. 1. There was some violence, ten deaths (six of them in gang-ridden Cavite, southwest of Manila, where pro-Magsaysay policemen shot up a small band...
...Republican Governor William G. Stratton, who is an old hand at politics, decided he would try to change that situation. The first governor in years to take an open interest in Chicago judgeship races, Stratton made the rounds of rallies, fired up the G.O.P. organization, told ward and precinct workers they would be held responsible for the turnout of voters in their areas. He concentrated on the Republican suburbs. Result: the Republicans scored a solid upset, won eight (seven superior-court, one circuit-court) of 14 contested judgeships. Said "Billy the Kid" Stratton: "It shows two things...