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Everyone had a theory to help explain away his disappointment. "These guys had the war to put up with," held forth the cop who stood outside the Hasty Pudding where the classmates had their nightly bacchanalia. "They haven't had time to set themselves up all the way. They're just not ready to give their money away." No, argued the more daring of us, those who hadn't combed their hair or who had left the top two buttons of pastel-colored shirts unbuttoned. "The alumni hate us. They think we're a bunch of communists...
Across the Channel, the change in mood and tense is more than linguistic. Un Conde (The Cop) plays the game of cops and robbers with the impact and subtlety of a .45 slug. Inspector Favenin (Michel Bouquet) has been censured for insubordination. Sullen, spiritually bankrupt, he blurs the distinction between criminal and keeper. When a young colleague is murdered, Favenin cracks. With deranged courage, he preempts the entire legal profession-cop, lawyer, judge, jury, executioner-and runs the gang to earth, ritualistically following the sanguinary vitality of the ancient Warner Bros, gangster movies...
...businesses where drugs are known to be sold. But such measures have no effect on the thousands of other outlets, where most of the heroin is bought. A member of TIME's Saigon bureau asked a pedicab driver outside the U.S.O. club for "skag." After perfunctory hesitation ("You cop?"), the driver took the correspondent to a heroin source ten minutes away...
Cisco Kid. One of three sons of a Philadelphia policeman, Rizzo more than earned his tough-cop reputation. While still a patrolman, he was nicknamed "the Cisco Kid" for breaking up a gang fight singlehanded. As commissioner, he prevented almost certain race riots by keeping large groups of police at the ready, sometimes loaded onto buses, and rushing them into potential trouble spots at the first sign of a disturbance...
Shapp, of course, would like to be able to deliver the entire state delegation, third largest in the country. But Rizzo is not likely to forget Shapp's answer when asked if he could support the former cop if he won the primary. "In a way," said Shapp, "it would be like me supporting George Wallace for President." Shapp also hopes that the responsibilities of office will moderate Rizzo: "You can't solve the transportation problem by beating on the side of a bus with nightsticks...