Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suspect that sometime in the next few weeks, Mr. Nixon's innocence may be proclaimed by a relieved band of Republican leaders who have read the transcripts of the tapes--that is, of course, the transcripts of those tapes that have not been "lost," or erased by the vagrant finger and heavy foot of Rose Mary Woods, or are not obscured by the Marine Band striking up "Columbia the Gem of the Ocean" just as the President starts to answer a question about pay-offs to the Watergate defendants. Who could believe the tapes except on blind faith, after...
...course, the charge itself is suspect coming as it does from an administration which forged diplomatic cables in an attempt to implicate a dead president in a murder plot. The burden of proof rests on those who try to claim that our politics has traditionally been as bad as they made it in 1972. They must show us that Dwight Eisenhower traded the public trust for a campaign contribution, that John Kennedy's staff was riddled with men subject to indictment, that Harry Truman was bugging Governor Dewey...
...teen-ager 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...
...last month I have become increasingly nervous about showering with 15 urinals watching me. I have begun to think about the calculated embarrassment of the girls at Brookfield Junior High School--and, I suspect at every other junior high school in the country...
Most real-life lawmen, however, find that TV crime shows bear little relation to reality. "Take a recent episode of Streets of San Francisco, " says San Francisco Private Investigator Harold Lipset. "Karl Maiden and his partner drive right up to a suspect's house and park in front. While they are inside, the suspect drives up, sees the car and gets away. Obviously you wouldn't do something like that." Even more often, says TIME Correspondent Joseph Boyce, himself an ex-policeman, TV cops "go to every call with squad lights flashing and sirens screaming." That, he says...