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Class Dismissed. In San Francisco, Rookie Patrolman Keith Scott was fired after he overslept for an 8 a.m. police class, jumped into his Jaguar, took off at such speed that he lost control and crashed into another cop...
...cauldron of every conceivable ethnic strain, salted by rising expectations. They are the sons of Armenians, Syrians, Greeks, Poles, Czechs, Ukrainians, Irish and Germans. They are the daughters of Southerners, black and white, who migrated north to the assembly lines. They are overalled machinists and off-duty policemen (one cop this year won a Woodrow Wilson fellowship). And 72% of them work in order to study-the average graduate takes nearly six years to earn a diploma...
...Massachusetts' John Kennedy, Butler made clear, is his Democratic presidential candidate. If Kennedy wins in the Wisconsin primary, Butler predicted, he should cop the nomination. But if he arrives in Los Angeles with as many as 500 delegates in his pocket and still falls short of the big prize, most Catholics will regard it as "an anti-Catholic maneuver," with dire consequences in the general election...
...14th Street bent on creating new troubles for tempest-tossed school authorities and the Negro children who were again trying to enter Central High School. This riot never came off, and one of the main reasons was the presence of a big (6 ft. 2½ in., 213 Ibs.) cop named Eugene Smith (TIME. Aug. 24). Police Chief Smith and his squads were ready for the mob leaders, picked them out one by one and sent them off to jail in paddy wagons. Amid cries of "Nigger lover!'' and "Coward!" Gene Smith, who never bothered about philosophizing...
...that he can turn his major dislike into minor but flawless literary art. Now he returns to the attack with the story of Cecil Spurgeon, a tired, self-pitying status-keeper in a coastal enclave of empire in British East Africa. In 1947 he is a glorified cop who bears the White Man's Burden as if it were a huge chip on his sloping shoulders. Cecil comes from a second-rate public school and a touchily impoverished class (lower-middle) that relishes the colonial official's feudal powers over natives, subordinates and foreigners. Cecil's religion...