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...VISION OF BATTLEMENTS, by Anthony Burgess. Sergeant Ennis, protagonist of this mad Burgess novel, is out of step with everyone at the British army garrison on Gibraltar; but better still, everyone is out of step with...
...winter morning in 1959, the body of Airline Clerk Mary Meslener, 23, was found on a canal bank three miles from Miami International Airport. She had been shot once in the head. More than two months after the murder, Airman Joseph Shea, 20, waved a bloody shirt at his sergeant in West Palm Beach and vaguely insisted that he had done "something bad." Because Shea had been trying to fake a medical discharge, the sergeant was skeptical; because the Meslener murder was still unsolved, though, Shea became a potential suspect...
...Donald Duncan, a former master sergeant in the U.S. Special Forces, who was the star of the evening with his biting behind-the-scenes picture of the Vietnamese battlefield...
...average of 260 hours in classes during his first year. Senior patrolmen spend 50 hours a year studying. To attract and hold high-caliber men, Fording has successfully fought for good wages. As a result, Berkeley offers one of the highest police pay scales in the U.S.A sergeant starts at $862 a month. Says Fording: "You can't pay a policeman a garbage-man's salary and expect to get quality enforcement...
Throughout the trial, the courtroom was packed with spectators openly sympathetic to Webster. Some of them may have kept busy after hours as well. McGaw received obscene telephone calls at his hotel. "They were so vile," he recalls, "that I couldn't repeat them to a Marine drill sergeant-and my own language is pretty salty." Victory should help him bear up under the insults. But it may be some time before McGaw can collect his $20,000. Last week Webster announced his intention of appealing the decision...