Word: sentinel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Orlando Sentinel...
While police detectives braced his legs, Milwaukee Sentinel Photographer James G. Conklin, 40, leaned perilously out over the narrow building ledge and aimed his camera at the ground, seven stories below. Magnified by the camera's 300-mm. telescopic lens, the subject loomed sharp and clear. Conklin set his motorized shutter, and his camera caught twelve pictures of a thief in the act (see cuts...
...Sentinel's pictures, spread all over Page One one morning last week, were all the evidence Milwaukee police needed to arrest John Allen Thomas, 44, a Brink's guard assigned to collect nickels from parking meters under a contract with the city. Tipped more than a month ago that most of Thomas' take was winding up in his own pocket, the Sentinel called in the police. Together they worked out their plan for trapping the coin pilferer with Conklin's camera. Confronted with graphic evidence of his guilt, Thomas confessed stealing nearly $500 in nickels...
...appointment was criticized as being blatantly political. Editorialized the Milwaukee Sentinel: "Our pride must be tempered by the fact that the appointment is obviously political . . . He was an early Kennedy supporter and his name is Polish, a coincidence which is likely to make some Kennedy votes next year among the heavy Polish-American populations of Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Pennsylvania and New York." Asked about all this at his press conference, President Kennedy said blandly: "I think we just happen to be fortunate that his grandparents came from Poland...
From the more moderate Southern papers, many of which had objected to Wallace's tactics last June, the new wave of censure was predictably severe. "George Wallace," editorialized the Knoxville News-Sentinel, "continues to bring disgrace on his office and his state. One would think that Wallace had learned his lesson since his low-comedy performance of 'standing in the door...