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...involved in the incident was finally located: Air Force Master Sergeant Edward Kleizo, 50, who, immediately after the event, had told Eaton "the President slapped me." But he gave CBS a slightly different version two days afterward. What Nixon had actually asked, Kleizo recalled, was "something like, 'Are you the boy's grandmother or grandfather?' "-a more understandable slip of the tongue than the total confusion of gender reported originally. "Then," Kleizo continued, "he looked back and tapped me affectionately on the cheek, sort of like putting shaving lotion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Great Slap Flap | 12/3/1973 | See Source »

...lost his left eye after being slugged by a policeman on the prowl for a much older suspect. An upper-middle-class housewife, wearing only a nightgown and housecoat, was dragged from her home, thrown down a flight of concrete stairs, handcuffed and belabored with obscenities by a police sergeant who claimed that she had urged her dog to attack him. During a family sidewalk fracas, a pregnant woman was pounded about the abdomen by a patrolman; although the woman has four other normal children, the infant born after that beating has a drooping eyelid, a bone protruding from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Policing Chicago Cops | 12/3/1973 | See Source »

...Look, sergeant, if I was Inspector Erskine [of The FBI], I would of had him for sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The View from the Real World | 11/26/1973 | See Source »

Such is the cop-shop banter on the Atlanta police force, says Sergeant W.E. Wood of the metropolitan narcotics squad. Like Wood, many real-life police officers, detectives and lawyers enjoy watching their fictionalized counter parts on television. "We watch Columbo and others," says Atlanta Assistant District Attorney Ross Hawkins, "be cause it makes our jobs a little more palatable to watch someone who does always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The View from the Real World | 11/26/1973 | See Source »

...presence to the curious townspeople, and to thwart suspicion in general, Jackson dresses her lover up as her sister and has him doing the chores in drag. He resists at first, but then comes to like it a little, enough to accept a Christmas-dance date with a loudmouthed sergeant (Oliver Reed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Quick Cuts | 11/19/1973 | See Source »

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