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Maher was narrowly defeated for the Council in 1963 (he was 10th), but that's only half his story. Maher is--or was--a cop. Back in 1963, he was a detective. After the election, Chief Daniel J. Brennan transferred him to traffic duty, and Maher charged the change was political revenge. The City Council held a public hearing, but that was all, and Maher continued waving on the cars. This summer Maher asked the chief for a six month leave of absence in order to run for the Council again. Chief Brennan refused the leave, and Maher resigned...
...Gould a loving buss backstage at Broadway's Martin Beck Theater after Elliott opened in a mock Sennett musical called Drat! The Cat! Then some of those cool New York cats-the critics-spoiled the party. They decided that, while Elliott was charming enough as a simple-souled cop who falls in love with a cat burglaress, they weren't so charmed by Librettist Ira Levin's pratfalling plot. As Mrs. Gould commiserated with her husband, the producers closed the play after...
Slightly Unfashionable. Proust's anguished genius gets the same policeman-like inquisition, but by a wholly sympathetic cop. The novelist's homosexuality, his experiments in degradation, weigh no more and no less than his unfailing kindness to inferiors, his fabulous powers of observation, his unequaled ability to transmute the stuff of his own aberrant life into a work of art that no thinking human can ignore...
...every guerrilla band in Latin America is controlled by Castro; to think so would attribute far too much importance to him. But most of them fight in his name and with his methods. In Venezuela, hardly a week goes by that the Castroite FALN terrorists do not shoot a cop in Caracas, dynamite an oil pipeline, or raid some remote village. Last week one band clashed with government troops 200 miles south of Caracas, and when the shooting was over two guerrillas and two soldiers were dead. In neighboring Colombia, long troubled by a siege of backlands banditry, President Guillermo...
...been dipped. Then, as the beast's severed head and tail lay near by, a montagnard sorcerer summoned divine spirits to witness an oath of friendship, and a rebel officer swore allegiance to Saigon Finally, to seal the pledge, two smiling girls presented Ky with a tray of cop per bracelets, and he was handed a symbolic weapon-a U.S. Army M-l carbine...