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...department suffering an "Escobedo syndrome"-and most of the others blame Chicago for their troubles. "Anybody would have known that guy had a right to see his attorney," snorts a Seattle police lieutenant. "If they hadn't messed up, we wouldn't be stuck today." To get unstuck, more and more police are handing out impeccable warnings. "We warn, warn, warn," says Denver D.A. Bert M. Keating. "It may hurt to stop the guy in midsentence," adds Miami Beach Police Chief Rocky Pomerance, "but what's the use if we can't use what he says...
...November 20 more were added-except for companies producing and selling within the U.S., which rolled back to the 36? line at President Johnson's urging. And now, less than three months later, the "fixed" world price had come unstuck again...
Prescription for Murder. No one could fault Dorothy for her resourcefulness as a reporter. With the help of one of the most liberal expense accounts in the business and a smile that rarely came unstuck, she wangled stories that eluded others. By lining up a screen test for a stage-struck court official at the Finch-Tregoff murder trial in California in 1960, she got inside information on the jury's deliberations. Her chumminess with the judge at Sam Sheppard's trial earned her more than one scoop-besides bringing sharp criticism for the judge...
...Baby. As the President's honey-toned, sugar-coated words come dripping from your pages or a radio, I find myself smothering an immense urge to warn all the little rabbits: "Don't be fooled, 'cause once you're stuck, you can't get unstuck...
Then things threatened to come unstuck again. Caamaño agreed to permit an OAS tanker to enter the rebel-held harbor one afternoon and supply a city power plant. But behind the tanker came an unexpected junta gunboat, bristling with 3-in. artillery and .50-cal. machine guns. If the junta's intention was to provoke an incident, it failed. Caamaño's troops held their fire, and the gunboat churned out of the harbor 45 minutes later. Next night, however, rebel troops started firing their rifles in the air, drawing fire from the junta side...