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...last week alone) to such public landmarks as Madison Square Garden, Grand Central Terminal, Yankee Stadium, the new Coliseum and the Empire State Building, sometimes came up with a firecracker or an empty piece of pipe, and only once (at the Paramount) with the real goods. Said one weary cop: "This city has plenty of wacks with a screwball sense of humor...
Like the vague charge of "vagrancy" in the hands of a determined U.S. cop, South Africa's Suppression of Communism Act provides Premier Johannes Strydom with a handy gimmick for arresting anybody he deems undesirable. The difference is that a hoodlum pulled in by a U.S. cop can usually get free in the morning...
Dual Exhaust. In Union City. N.J., pinched after he narrowly missed running down a cop, Motorist Chester J. Bronski pleaded not guilty of careless driving, alibied that the cigar he had smoked after slugging down four beers had made him dizzy, was fined $25 anyway for "driving while under the influence of a cigar...
...Suyin declared that love could never come again. But only months later she had married a British policeman whose job was fighting Communists in Malaya. Now comes . . . And the Rain My Drink, not unnaturally a near novel about Malaya, in which the nicest white character is a British cop whose job it is to run down Communists. The People Inside. The book's narrator is "Suyin," who works in the big general hospital at Johore Bahru (as Author Han Suyin once did). Across the strait lies Singapore, close behind lies the jungle. And in the jungle are the Communists...
...Side burns bristling, he rolled out of the car and rocked the manager with a looping right to the eye. Then a station attendant, a real big guy, moved in to square off with Presley. But Elvis threw a Sunday punch that grazed the bruiser's puss. A cop then enforced an armistice. Next day a judge, in a courtroom twittering with Presley's bobby-sox worshippers (several with babes in arms), decided that the gas-station pair were the aggressors, socked them with fines totaling $40. Cheers rocked the court. Elvis fought his way out through screaming...