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...every beverage agent and state trooper in the county had swooped in on the joint. There were 10 cop cars of various descriptions...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: Spruce Creek | 2/24/1972 | See Source »

...such a head of pressure built up, God! he braces his foot against the cage and he just lets it all go and it catches the sheriff right in the ear and Chick had a lotta beer in him so he hardly stops before they get back to the cop station. He just sprayed that guy back and forth. Chick was a hard drinker and wasn't one to puke...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: Spruce Creek | 2/24/1972 | See Source »

WHICH MERELY LEADS up to a year's best list. Even if I can't think of more than six films that meant much on re-viewing, listing them lets me act--in theory, anyway--as a cop for the audience and scold for the hacks. (I've also limited my outlook to those films that opened in Boston between Christmases--tossing out one crowd's Clockwork Orange and another's Dirty Harry...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Natural Selection | 2/17/1972 | See Source »

...friends on Manhattan's notorious 42nd Street at about 11:15 p.m., Bayard Rustin, 61, executive director of the A. Philip Randolph Institute and a longtime civil rights leader, was politely stopped by a policeman who asked to examine the cane he was carrying. Rustin complied. SNICK-the cop twisted the handle and out came a sword. Carrying a sword cane is a felony in New York City if the person involved has been previously convicted of a crime. "Of course I've been convicted before," said Rustin. "I served three years in federal prison in 1943 because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 14, 1972 | 2/14/1972 | See Source »

Helfand claims that he never assaulted an officer. "A cop jumped me from behind and then hit me over the head with a blackjack," Helfand said yesterday. "I never saw him and I'm not really sure what happened. I'm definitely going to plead 'not guilty'," he added...

Author: By Rob Eggert, | Title: SDS, Police Fight; Helfand Arrested | 2/9/1972 | See Source »

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