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First, the chief's wife Caroline, cool to Spenser's presence before her husband's murder, is willing to be less reticent. Second, a friendly state police trooper named Lundquist appears on the scene, giving Spencer state police support in his battle with the local police...
...history of the bombing is only half of this stream-of-consciousness monologue. Gray also alternates light and funny descriptions of friends with darkly hilarious tales, for instance, he tells of the Thai prostitutes who have numbers instead to names and of Jack Daniels, the US trooper who, while high on blue-flake cocaine, guards the "button" which will shower nuclear destruction on Moscow...
...victims was Douglas Lee Shive, 68, of Manchester, N.H., said said Trooper Edward Dyer...
Today, although 27% of the 734 arresting officers are black, there are no blacks who rank higher than sergeant. In the U.S. Supreme Court last week, the issue of promotions ensured the troopers one more spot in the history books. In another in the maze of rulings that have defined the ground rules for affirmative action, the court upheld an intricate scheme aimed at compelling integration of the higher ranks. To prod the troopers to offer an acceptable plan, a lower court temporarily required the force to promote one black trooper for every white promoted to each rank, if there...
...that big a deal." Earle may be the man to bring about this kind of crossover, but it's a hard job that has frustrated such gifted performers as John Prine and Joe Ely. Still, Earle has strong qualifications. He can sing Springsteen's spooky, poignant State Trooper and make it his own. He looks like the guy one stool over at the truck stop, with a Peterbilt cap and a waistline that has seen a little too much barbecue, but he reads Faulkner, Steinbeck and Hemingway and points out that "you can't write if you don't read...