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...weeks ago, in an operation known as Swamp '81, 150 plainclothes police, along with 50 uniformed bobbies were staked out in the worst areas of the neighborhood to combat the crime wave. In the first four days of their operation, the police made 150 arrests In doing so, they stopped and questioned more than 1,000 people, invoking Britain's 150-year-old Sus (for suspect) law. The statute allows the police to question and even detain random suspects if there is reason to believe they may be planning to commit a crime. Overuse...
...used during the glory days. ABC, which had closed its down, had to build a new one. But the ABC structure--complete with studio and panoramic plate-glass windows for viewing the launch--was installed backwards. It faced not pad 39A, from which the shuttle blasts off, but a swamp. So ABC had to call a crane to turn the entire two-story pine box around...
Squinting his eyes at the shuttle three miles away and motioning at the 12-story Vehicle Administration Building (VAB), Numeroff says, "When I first got here in 1959, the Cape was a swamp. Now it has burgeoned onto a place like downtown Manhattan...
Meanwhile, the ACSR wallows in a mound of bureaucracy that threatens to swamp it because the committee is obliged by the Corporation's cowardly policy to consider resolutions on an ad hoc basis...
...problem in other crimes as well. The city's black police chief, George Napper, who has a Ph.D. in criminology, sees his job in grim cartoon-like terms. Says he: "When you're up to your ass in alligators, it's hard to remember your purpose is draining the swamp...