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...Saturday Evening Post. None of them were very good but they at least provided some antidote to the relentless drone of television; they at least marked out a conception of the world less fleeting than a half hour of network news sandwiched between vapid and escapist situation comedies and cop shows. Now they are gone, and we are left with a choice among Walter Cronkite, Time magazine and the local newspaper with its wire service copy. We are fed an increasingly standardized and bland diet of news and comment, and the portions of hard-core information are getting steadily smaller...
...Wolf continued his domination of the 200-yd. backstroke, finishing four seconds ahead of the versatile Tetlow. Freshman freestyler George Keim was touched out in the 50-yd. sprint, but rebounded to cop the 100-yd. event...
...cries of "Breaker, break!" (the standard shortwave request to cut in on a channel) when a smokey sets up his radar. "You better get green stamps [cash] ready," warns a gruff voice on the Indiana toll road. One trooper even ticketed a trucker for urinating by the roadside. That cop's handle is now Fly Inspector. A more common offense is riding overweight, which can result hi a fine of several hundred dollars. Some gutsy drivers sneak around weigh stations on secondary roads. If nabbed, an outlaw driver can be jailed as well as fined. As the CB network...
When the rare brutal cop knocks in a son or daughter's (or one's own) teeth after a minor pot bust, if the press has been forced down the drain, then that cop will be around to knock out some more teeth...
Such is the cop-shop banter on the Atlanta police force, says Sergeant W.E. Wood of the metropolitan narcotics squad. Like Wood, many real-life police officers, detectives and lawyers enjoy watching their fictionalized counter parts on television. "We watch Columbo and others," says Atlanta Assistant District Attorney Ross Hawkins, "be cause it makes our jobs a little more palatable to watch someone who does always...