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...read Sergeant Joseph Wambaugh's book The New Centurions [Feb. 15] and was sorry to hear that he was officially admonished by L.A. Police Chief Edward M. Davis. He should have been given a citation for the compassionate insight he renders into the life of a cop. He successfully delineates the humanism of the policeman trying to do an impossible job. Wambaugh does more than "keep out of trouble with the reader," he evokes a positive response toward this clannish group of men who know...
...busily working his way up to the deanship of the University of North Carolina Medical School. "We quite consciously set out to raise our children free of the hang-ups we see in ourselves and our generation," Dr. Taylor explained recently. "We weren't going to use that cop-out of 'because the Bible tells you so.' " James' mother, Trudy Taylor, is the daughter of a Massachusetts fisherman and boat builder who before her marriage trained seriously as a lyric soprano. She had seen fondness for music so tormented by formal training that, though James, Livingston, Alex and Kate...
...Roman inspector (Gian Maria Volonte) is a remorseless homicide cop who also happens to be a homicidal psychopath. The sexual subcurrents of his sickness are brought out by his mistress (Florinda Bolkan), who is entranced by his bloody profession. The film opens on his last visit to her. "How will you kill me this time?" she coquettishly asks. "I'll cut your throat," he replies. And so he does, as they make love. With deliberate clumsiness, he steals her jewelry (but not her 300,000 lire), leaves his fingerprints in the shower and bloody shoeprints. Then he takes...
...Cop-Out. "Saying that none of our pollution problems can be solved without getting at population first is a cop-out of the worst kind." argued Microbiologist Barry Commoner of Washington University in St. Louis (TIME cover. Feb. 2, 1970). As he sees it, statistical data prove that total pollution in the U.S. increased disproportionately between 1946 and 1966, while population rose by only 43%. Nor is pollution localized in cities where the most people are: radioactive fallout, pesticide residue and fertilizer run-off all pollute the rural environment. The root problem, Commoner said, lies in consumption patterns. Bowing...
Soviets his enemy also, nevertheless lusts to be First Secretary. He backed Gierek in return for Politburo seats for himself and three conservative allies. From the new vantage point of Party Secretary for the army and security forces, he becomes Poland's top cop...