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Chicago's Boss-Mayor Richard J. Daley sent an SOS for Wilson last January after a small-bore burglar gave convincing evidence of his year of crime collaboration with ten Chicago cops (TIME, Feb. 1). This evidence, on top of everything else, gave Democrat Daley the worst political rocking of his five years in office, prompted him to demote his police commissioner. To California's Wilson and a blue-ribbon citizens' committee, Mayor Daley gave a sweeping order: Find the best police superintendent in the country. Last week, after interviewing no fewer than 37 candidates, the committee...
Somewhat tense but never impatient, the crowd had waited at the gates since early morning, but it was not until the afternoon shadows had begun to lengthen that the superintendent of Buckingham Palace at last made his appearance. His face wore a broad grin, and his hand bore a simple two-sentence statement handwritten on pale grey stationery and signed by the Queen's four doctors. "Is it a boy?" shouted someone in the crowd as the superintendent hung the gilt-framed announcement upon the railings. "Yes, it is," he shouted back, and the crowd cheered...
...cave-in, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd solemnly told Parliament that after five attempts to bore through 500 ft. of earth and limestone in search of the men, "all hope" had been abandoned. But wives of three of the white miners begged for one more rescue attempt. A self-styled seer, Petrus Johannes Kleinhans, 29, had told them that he had a vision in which he saw the precise position of seven black and three white men, still alive. When he pointed to the place to dig, mine officials, who had insisted all along that there was no hope, said...
...cruelly vindictive to errant wives. When the Dame de Fayel's husband discovered that she kept her dead lover's heart in a casket, he had it plucked out and served up in a stew. Though the clergy openly kept concubines till the 16th century, bodily love bore the taint of anathema. Sample bedgear for many a medieval wife was the chemise cagoule, "a heavy nightdress with a suitably placed hole through which the husband could impregnate his wife while avoiding any other contact...
Sportswriting was fun, but Reston, partially prompted by his bride, longed for greater things. "In dull periods," he said, sports reporting is an insufferable bore." In one dull period, he wangled his way onto the A.P.'s London bureau, where curious combination assignment, half sports and half Foreign Office reporting, lad opened up in 1937. Soon Reston, who says, "I didn't even know where Germany was on the map," was concentrating on the embassies. Reston shrewdly cultivated friendships with some of the young foreign officers, notably Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson, then first secretary in the Canadian embassy...