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...telephone impersonations that often enabled him to scoop rivals without ever leaving the city room. Consider his coverage of the 1966 Speck murder case: as soon as he heard the news, he called the house where the eight nurses had lived, identified himself as the coroner, and pumped a cop on the scene for all details-minutes before the real coroner appeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 28, 1970 | 12/28/1970 | See Source »

Then the prosecution's last witness took the stand. He was James Dursi, 23, a rifleman in Calley's platoon, who recently applied for a job as a New York City cop. He reinforced the testimony of both Sledge and Turner, then added a weird example of the kind of transformation that men in combat can undergo. At one point, Dursi related, having rounded up a group of civilians, "Meadlo had them sitting on a dike [near the trail]. He was playing with the kids, giving them C-rations and candy like we always did." Calley arrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: Lieut. Calley at Bay | 12/21/1970 | See Source »

...recent years, Maheu had expanded on his own, buying into a $70 million housing development in Los Angeles, restaurants and an electronics company. Maheu and his security chief, Jack W. Hooper, a former Los Angeles cop, also had interests in a number of consulting firms. The Maheu firms hired the Hooper firms as security consultants, while the Hooper firms hired Maheu's companies for advice on management...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Shootout at the Hughes Corral | 12/21/1970 | See Source »

...Hocheiser private loony bin, where Gordon continually threatens to throw Mama out the window. Offense is the order of the day, particularly in one episode when a gang of blacks forces Sidney to strip and rape a lady in the park. The "lady," it turns out, is a cop in drag who falls in love with his assailant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Twelve-Letter Obscenity | 12/14/1970 | See Source »

Rejecting Pomerleau's theories, a U.S. district court in Baltimore has ruled that Bruns is eligible to be a cop. Chief Judge Edward Northrop found no evidence that the practice of nudism would hinder Bruns from carrying out his duties as a police officer. Without such evidence, said the court, the Baltimore police department's ban against nudists clearly violated the First Amendment right to free association...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Bare Decision | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

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