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Bing had seen Cowan coming in time to duck under a desk. He and most of the 50 other Neptune employees in the building were able to escape when police arrived. The first cop on the scene, Allen McLeod, 33, was picked off by the Sako rifle from a distance of about 30 ft. Three more policemen responding to the shooting calls were wounded...
There will be some red-faced athletic directors in Chattanooga if Acosta manages to cop the top prize, one man against all the "big handball schools...
...Chin testified in a case involving a Stratford, Conn., policeman named Joseph Berke, who was convicted of having bugged the town hall, ostensibly to aid himself in the state examination for promotion. The bugs were discovered by electricians, and at the trial Chin testified that he had sold the cop a listening device-key testimony that helped convict Berke. Investigators theorize that Chin may have been rubbed out by someone else who had been using his equipment illegally and, hearing about the Berke case, decided that the bug maker had become too talkative for comfort. Then again, almost anyone involved...
...Hook in Peter Pan -another product of their collaborations-to a sailor in On the Town. She is the perfect counterpoise, an off-the-rack Garbo who would have turned even Camille into a wild giggle. Rarely has so much wit and fun been packed into two hours. To cop a line from another songwriter. Cole Porter, what a swellegant, elegant party this...
...program the board proposes would require every Congressman to vote to make his constituents pay far more than ever before for energy. There will be many temptations to seek less painful solutions. Harvard Professor Otto Eckstein lists "three cop-outs" that all too many people take on energy policy. The first is to put faith in blue-sky technologies, such as development of solar and geothermal power, to increase energy supplies, which they can do only marginally. Says Eckstein: "When somebody talks about solar as the answer to energy, you know he is dodging the issue." The second cop...