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...Somehow, he became a cop in 1966, despite a youthful arrest for illegal possession of liquor and an Army discharge for "behavioral disorders" after three AWOL incidents in seven months of service. He was with the state police from 1968 to 1972 and quit shortly after his squad-car windshield was apparently shot out from the inside when he was alone on patrol. His record also included the beating of a man he had arrested. After that, a brief stint as a tobacco salesman came and went amidst claims by his employers that a cache of cigarettes had mysteriously disappeared...
Recently, after I had made a purchase at a local store, the clerk offered to wrap it for me. I thought that they must have run out of paper bags. A day or so later, the gas-station attendant actually washed the windshield. Merchants are beginning to push common courtesy. I hadn't realized that things were...
...heavy police presence increased tension among Southie's resentful Irish residents, and one evening a brick was heaved through the windshield of a cruising T.P.F. squad car. When the officers tried to arrest a suspect, two dozen Southie toughs set upon them, and the police lost the man in the crowd. The next night two dozen T.P.F. officers burst into the jampacked Rabbit Inn on Dorchester Street. As many as eight patrons were reported injured. Some Southies are convinced that the T.P.F...
...point, a Haitian immigrant named Jean-Louis Andre Yvon, 33, turned unwittingly onto Dorchester Street. Some 35 people surrounded Yvon's car, smashed his windshield and pulled him out. Someone shouted, "Get the nigger!" Yvon fled for the porch of a nearby house and clung to the railing as youths battered him with clubs. Only after a white policeman drew his pistol and fired some warning shots was a dazed and bleeding Yvon finally rescued. "He would have been dead if I hadn't fired," the policeman said later...
...real South American bugs," says Producer William Castle. Reminded, perhaps, of the "feelies" of Huxley's Brave New World-in which audiences were electronically tuned in to experience the physical impact of every love scene and head-bonking shown on the screen-Castle is planning a floor-mounted windshield-wiper device that will softly brush across moviegoers' feet and ankles at crucial moments...