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...first, Chambers did little but talk about Communism in party meetings and write for the Daily Worker and the New Masses. One day, while covering a textile strike in Passaic, he watched a slender girl in a brown beret lead a charge against a police line while a cop yelled: "Get that bitch in the brown beret." Chambers later learned that the girl was a pacifist named Esther Shemitz. They were married in 1931. Four years later, the Communist Party ordered Chambers to Washington as a member of the Fourth Section of the Soviet Military Intelligence...
...Times, University of Illinois Graduate Chancellor, now 33, joined NBC news in 1950, went around Chicago in a mobile unit painted like a police car and equipped with a flashing red light and siren. He chased cop calls, once sprawled on the pavement and narrated a gunfight with bullets whanging overhead, also covered an oil refinery fire, continuing his broadcast even while running through falling debris, although his voice went up about seven octaves en route...
...meets a sawed-off apprentice thug who wants her to buy a brick or he will conk her with it. She has no money, but takes the brick and, in innocence, offers it for the thug to a hysterical old man. A cop comes, the thug runs, she is led off to the station. There she panics, locks herself into what turns out to be the station arsenal. But the chief of police is coming for an inspection, and the door must be opened. A convict safecracker is summoned, dressed in a cop's uniform. The chief praises...
...League competition, the Crimson and Bulldogs have each sustained one loss to the powerful Princeton unit that should easily walk over Cornell this weekend to complete an undefeated Ivy season and cop the League championship for the fifth consecutive year...
Involvement of Harvard students with the police usually doesn't go much further than a reminder by a Yard cop to "stop riding that bicyle in the Yard." Indeed the recent diploma riots proved the point. Neither the University nor the Cambridge police, unaccustomed to mob demonstrations from Harvard students, seemed quite sure how to handle the demonstration. There was little brutality or violence on either night, and the police used tear gas during the second riot largely so they wouldn't have to spend the entire evening pleading with the crowd to disperse. Police in Cambridge just...