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...insist on being what Carlyle called the only "clothed animal," but defining "public decency" is among the law's most hopeless chores. Thus in Caracas last summer, a clever cop arrested a topless-bathing-suit wearer simply for not carrying identification papers. But in Cannes, another cop could think of no such evasive tactic when he spotted Claudine Durand, 21, on the beach. Barebreasted, the pretty Parisian gym teacher was playing pingpong before fascinated spectators...
...Elijah at the Muslims' annual convention in the Chicago Coliseum last weekend. An anonymous caller warned, "We have arrived. Muhammad will have a lively convention." Police combed the convention hall for bombs, quintupled their security detail to 45 men, ordered 50 more to stand by. Elijah, said one cop, will have "as much security as if he were President Johnson...
...grilles salvaged from the Stock Exchange now partition a photographer's bedroom, architects' offices and starkly modern apartments. Recently a pair of respectable Chicago amateurs tried to save the glass windows from a partially demolished Frank Lloyd Wright house, and were arrested. "Frank Lloyd who?" snorted the cop...
...Black Liberation plotters, things seemed to be going swimmingly. Little did they know that in their midst was an undercover agent: big Ray Wood, not a pro-Castro kook at all but a New York rookie cop. Last summer he was taken from his classes at the police academy, ordered to infiltrate left-wing groups like the Black Liberation Front that at the time were suspected of fomenting Harlem riots. Wood spent hours plodding picket lines and insulting cops, managed to gain Collier's confidence, and joined the conspirators' inner circle. He kept a daily diary...
...traffic offenses in the case of Jose Gonsalves, 33, a Portuguese alien, whose car was involved in a collision at a Providence intersection. A policeman asked Gonsalves if he had stopped before proceeding with caution past a flashing red traffic light. When Gonsalves said no, the cop issued an on-the-spot summons. Because the cop failed to warn Gonsalves that he did not have to answer and could consult a lawyer, Police Court Judge Peter K. Rosedale sprung him. Escobedo, said the judge, reaches "even overtime parking. I feel such misdemeanors are, in a technical sense, crimes. The same...