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What went wrong? Longtime observers point out that the department's reputation as a superclean force may have lulled the community into smugness about the police. Both Cincinnati's city hall and its two daily newspapers were tame watchdogs. Said one dismayed patrolman: "The top man has been indicted; it couldn't be much worse. There is a dark cloud hanging over all of us." So much so that when Acting Chief Myron Leistler took over, one of his first acts was to replace the entire 13-man vice squad...
...haven for the amateur drag racers who did at times barrel down the wide park way at speeds exceeding one hundred miles an hour. Today, staggered traffic lights and radar-equipped patrol cars have quashed what was once a standard form of recreation for many Michigan youths. At the tame speed limit of 50, the expanse of Woodward is now a half-hour drive, past Kentucky Fried Chicken and bullet proof liquor stores, closed automobile factories, the now-deserted Motown records building, Cass Corridor--one of the nation's most crime-infested districts--several middle-class neighborhoods, and Bloomfield Hills...
...reads one tract currently circulating in French army barracks from Bordeaux to Strasbourg. That kind of broadside might seem rather tame to soldiers in anarchic Lisbon, but it has had a jolting impact on the somnolent 330,000-man French army, which until recently might have been described as a force de nap. In response to these anonymous calls to arms, there has been a widespread effort to organize trade unions or soldiers' committees within the armed forces. Last month a group of soldiers in the 19th Engineers Regiment at Besangon in eastern France tried to organize a clandestine...
...considerable turbulence in his regime. There had been two days and nights of military comings and goings at the Palacio Tupac Amaru, and at the end two influential generals were retired from the army. General Morales had either broken up a possible coup or, as one of the tame Lima newspapers put it, had simply moved "to have his own men in positions of trust and power, normal with all incoming Presidents in most parts of the world." His guys, so to speak...
...would not be worth the candle. No strong interest can be aroused among the students at large until we are allowed to play Yale and Princeton." In the summer of 1886 the faculty agreed to allow the team to schedule Ivy League contests, if the team adopted rules to tame the game's "bestial nature." New groundrules, when they were adopted, did not restrain the players for long. By the early 1890s Harvard and Yale were stunning each other with such devastating innovations as the flying wedge, a formation eventually banned in all U.S. football leagues. After the 1894 match...