Word: prowl
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Guards & Sewage. Just to service and guard this vast machine takes about 1,000 men & women. A daytime visitor no longer needs a pass to enter the building as in wartime, but some 170 security officers prowl its corridors, bar the unauthorized from restricted areas. There is but one chimney atop the Pentagon; black smoke rising from it is a sign that sergeants are busy burning classified papers...
...window was broken at 4 a.m., and the noise attracted a Cambridge prowl car. Officers saw a score of tuxedoed students running from the scene and took off after them. Although most got away, the police got four, as follows...
some of the authentic seenes of the workings of the Yard are good, particularly the scientific car chase with several prowl cars in radio contact encircling the killer; but these few scenes are not enough to make an interesting movie. The story is ordinary cops and robbers at heart. The killer's bungling, instead of the brilliance of Scotland yard, leads to his final capture...
...publicity release says, "The Blue Lamp' is probably the only picture for which a script was written in the front seat of a police prowl car." Maybe that's why the author forgot that authentic photography alone can't make a good movie...
...Manhattan's Harlem prowl some of the nation's most vicious teen-age gangs, and neither police watchfulness nor the usual type of social work has done much good against them.* Three years ago, the privately financed Welfare Council of New York City started a simple experiment in infiltration. To four of the worst gangs in Central Harlem-the Jay Bees, the Gay Blades, the Royals and the Knights-it assigned four young social workers, three of them Negroes. By last week, the council was able to tell, in a 162-page report, what its social workers...