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...assumes a mask of in difference that puts off the people he works with and drives his wife (Ann Todd) to drink. Inevitably, the morbid love-hate of women that is hidden in the inspector's heart bursts out in an ambiguous compulsion to punish and to prowl...
...trademark. The obscene indignities he performed on the bodies of the women he killed were never fully reported in the newspapers; some were simply unprintable. Nevertheless, chilling accounts of the killer's bestiality leaked out, compounding the fear that any community feels when a murderer is on the prowl. Women living alone all but barricaded themselves in their apartments; the demand for watchdogs-dogs of any kind -kept the local pound empty. Unable to run down a single clue to the Strangler's identity, the police in desperation tried to track him with the aid of an advanced...
...satisfied to snag speeders with only prowl cars and radar traps, the Florida highway patrol has a three-plane air force. At a couple of dozen locations, Florida highways are festooned with white stripes a quarter-mile apart. Orbiting at altitudes of 800 ft. to 1,500 ft., a trooper in a Piper Cub can clock cars whizzing by below. If his stop watch says a car has raced over the quarter-mile stretch too fast (less than 12.8 sec. in a 70-m.p.h. zone), the flying cop radios a cruiser on the ground to make the arrest...
...Oldsmobile. When the Japanese invaded the Philippines after Pearl Harbor, the stage was set for another leap in the Marcos legend. Called to duty as an intelligence officer, 2nd Lieut. Marcos required only a few weeks to become a hero. His idea of intelligence duty was to prowl behind the Japanese lines?often in his personal Oldsmobile sedan?probing for weak spots. He found one on Bataan's Mount Natib: a Japanese military battery that was lobbing 70-mm. shells into U.S. General Jonathan Wainwright's beleaguered defenders. Marcos and three privates scouted the battery, trailing two bearded Japanese artillerymen...
...turn into the Viet Nam of the 1970s. Absurd? Only 15 years ago, the Communist Huk guerrillas came perilously close to taking over the nation. Even now, central Luzon is seeing a recrudescence of Huk terror as some 1,000 armed guerrillas, supported by an estimated 27,000 peasants, prowl the forests...