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...youth to move on; the car was blocking traffic. "He appeared dazed and unsteady on his feet, and his eyes were bloodshot," the officer later explained. So he asked the youth if he was drunk. "No," said 17-year-old Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and, according to the cop, spat a mouthful of ice cream into his face. Hauled into court on a loitering charge (just two weeks after his one-year probation for possessing marijuana had ended), he pleaded no contest and was ordered to pay $50 in court casts. When Kennedy explained that he did not have...
...often that Western Costume Company had a 'Horace McMahon' tag sewn into a convict's striped suit." In 1949 he exchanged his prison number for a badge number, returning to the stage as Lieut. Monoghan in Detective Story. Finding his new image as the hard-boiled cop equally remunerative, McMahon later became the grumbling police lieutenant who ran New York's 65th precinct detective squad on the long-lived ABC series Naked City...
Heyerdahl's account of the voyage was translated into more than 60 languages, sold more than 20 million cop ies. In 1955 he made an expedition to Easter Island, 2,350 miles west of Chile, and another bestseller, Aku-Aku, resulted. But then he bought a 13th century terra cotta chateau above the Ital ian Riviera and settled down to a comfortable life of sun-kissed scholarship. Had Thor Heyerdahl become adventurer emeritus? Not quite...
...attack did indeed occur, Commissioner Frank Felicetta, an up-from-the-ranks hardliner, ordered his men to muster for the lineups more than a year ago. They refused, and unsuccessfully fought the order all the way up to the Supreme Court. The delay took its toll. At least three cops said to have been elsewhere during the incident were reportedly among the ten identified by the witness victims. That may well undermine the other identifications, which are to be used only in departmental disciplinary proceedings. No cop is likely to come to trial because such a broad-gauge...
...window-rattling thriller about a black private investigator named John Shaft (Richard Roundtree), who says "Right on" a lot and runs around in an endless variety of leather costumes making things hot for the bad guys. The film develops a good, affectionately edgy relationship between Shaft and a white cop, played by Charles