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Whatever may have been the distinction's validity in 1954, when police men (Sgt. Pepper?) stood in the school doorways to bar black children, it is almost meaningless today. To the black youth isolated in the center of the doughnut, what difference does it make whether his position results from law or social fact? As Alexander Bickel writes in The Supreme Court and the Idea of Progress...
...There's Jeff Beck's introduction to "Over, Under, Sideways, Down;" Ray Davies' integration of "Land of 1000 Dances" into his archetypal "Top of the Pops;" the musical moment between "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and "Honky Tonk Women," which signified the end of mainstream Sgt. Pepper experimentation; "Lola." Pithy moments that, like good imagist poetry, are form, substance and implication in the instant they are heard. Take Peter Townshend's "My Generation." The singer's stutter says as much as the lyrics and says it better...
Atlanta's Sgt. Wood cites a recent case in which a man was on trial for selling drugs to an undercover agent. "The jury wanted to know why we hadn't gotten a picture of the buy and why we hadn't gotten fingerprints from the packet," he fumes. "But that's not the way it works. You don't go out and shout, 'I'm an undercover agent buying dope!' Buys take place in dark alleys, and that little plastic bag they wanted us to get fingerprints from was greasy...
...POLICE who shot up the Panther headquarters were not so embarrassed as the mumbling commander. Just after the Panther incident, Sgt. Groth, who lead the raid told reporters his men had called for a "cease-fire" but the Panthers wouldn't agree. Groth claims a voice from the shadows shouted back, "Shoot is out!" The police, he said, "had no choice but to return fire." And the police stuck to their story, even in face of clear-cut ballistic evidence...
Cambridge detective Sgt. James A. Roscoe said last night that two witnesses saw two men put the paintings in a foreign-make...