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Hardin finished a strong third, four seconds behind Pottetti. Tom Spengler lost contact with the leaders surprisingly early, but continued on to cop fourth. Sophomore Jon Enscoe stayed with Spengler tenaciously most of the way for fifth place in his best race to date...
...sensitivity-training the Los Angeles Police Department can offer, would probably find pounding a beat on the hostile streets of Watts a frustrating experience. After reading Varieties of Police Behavior, one might even guess that Friday would cause more friction there than would the proverbial Irish cop with a parochial grade school education...
Just as every cop is a criminal...
...chose some unlikely writers to cast a new light on events, and it is quite often a lurid one. In Esquire, that chronicler of human decay and perversion, Jean Genet, reports that he could smell America decomposing; he was also fascinated by the size of the thighs of Chicago cops. In the same magazine, William Burroughs concocts a fantasy in which a purple-bottomed baboon runs for President. Esquire's John Sack, on the other hand, convincingly finds the typical cop much more playful, much less passionate about his skull-splitting than other commentators suggest. In National Review, Garry...
Happily, Mailer remains a minor character in his work. He indulged, it is true, in a bit of cop-baiting at the Democratic Convention and got into a scuffle with a hippie-hater. But it was mercifully brief and it is briefly told. Otherwise, his subject matter keeps him too occupied to find much time for self-dramatization. In the process, he may have become an uncertain friend of the left. To youth's search for spontaneity and sensual gratification, he offers a 45-year-old's caution: "The best things in life were most difficult to reach...