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...Hand. In many ways Gilpatric is McNamara's personality opposite-he is socially gregarious and skilled in the ways of handling admirals, generals and politicians. He plays kind cop to McNamara's tough cop-and McNamara recognizes his value. The two have become close friends (of which McNamara, although widely respected, has few in Washington); and the Pentagon has come increasingly to realize that whatever their difference in demeanor, McNamara and Gilpatric think alike on policy matters. Gilpatric speaks and acts in McNamara's name; indeed, many Defense directives are prepared without signature blocks so that either...
Wearily, the magistrate applied to higher authorities for permission. Until the papers arrived, Ebtehaj insisted on staying in jail, even grabbed the belt of a cop who had neglected the formality of the occasion and tried to leave Ebtehaj unguarded. Two days later he finally consented to quit his prison hospital cell, and his captors breathed a sigh of relief...
...California courtroom, an accused murderer will soon be confronted by a novel adversary. A witness for the prosecution will be an atomic scientist, armed with "radiation fingerprints," evidence that can be as accurate and reliable as a photograph of the actual crime. No ordinary cop could hope to gather such fingerprints, or even to decipher them. They are the product of neutron activation analysis, which requires that specimens under study be irradiated with neutrons in a nuclear reactor. Then the fine details of their chemical composition can be deduced from the pattern of the radiation they give...
...they married. Worse, Libby is a sickly girl, the sort whose pale beauty is best set off by fever, and whose malfunctioning organs-kidneys, in her case-take on a presence of their own in the house, like an old aunt's false teeth or an off-duty cop's revolver...
...Cops and newsmen often get along like cops and robbers. But there are times when the police eagerly oblige a journalist's least request. Last week was such a time. With the bitter triumph that only a cop can feel, lawmen in New York and Chicago captured two of the three men suspected of having killed two New York detectives during a stickup at a Brooklyn store. And when news photographers asked for pictures of the cop killers, police in both cities were only too happy to assist, even though it took some doing...