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Life with Father. In Milwaukee, Mrs. Ourania Karabelas, suing for divorce, complained that her husband, who was sentenced to 15 years in prison for kidnaping, with five years added to his term for jail breaking, and was being held for shooting a cop, "had failed to assume the responsibilities of married life...
Special Detail. In Chicago, Patrolman Walter Binder, in a stake-out at a service station, was stuck up by two gunmen who lifted $225 from the till, trussed up the cop, stole his pistol and wristwatch...
...sudden switch of examinations from the usual period in July to February. High-spiritedly, the teen-agers marched off toward the Ministry of Education. Almost any mild measure would presumably have stopped them, but the police-minded government of President Marcos Pérez Jimenez sent well-armed cops. Angered and insulted by student insolence, the police attacked with sabers and (according to some accounts) fired on the shrieking school kids. An army officer arrived in time to see his daughter struck by a cop with the flat of a saber; he shot the policeman on the spot...
...turned violent. As nonstrikers tried to drive through the picket lines, the strikers threw themselves on the cars. The thin line of Long Island police, under orders not to carry nightsticks, was repeatedly overwhelmed. Once, as a mob of pickets rushed to an entrance to head off workers, a cop stood aside. "What the hell was I going to do?" he muttered. "I was outnumbered...
Hell on Frisco Bay (Jaguar; Warner) The resident devil is Edward G. Robinson, a sort of menace emeritus who is invited by Alan Ladd, a cop he once framed, to retire from the daily grind to a peaceful chair at San Quentin. Eddie replies at some length: "Oh y-a-a-a-a?" Alan lets his right hand do the talking-and for a man who seems to have scarcely enough muscle to move his own face, he packs quite a punch. The effect of it, in fact, is almost enough to make a moviegoer believe that this picture...