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...Paris to hear the news. Next morning he rushed off to see Lemaigre's widow, then summoned Pierre July. Minister for Tunisia and Morocco, for urgent consultation. Emerging from this meeting, July declared bluntly: "Counter-terrorism . . . once again has dishonored France." He sent France's No. 1 cop, Roger Wybot, to investigate the murder and reorganize Casablanca's police force...
When to Shift. When the British occupied Lower Saxony, Schlüter presented himself as a victim who had suffered for his trace of Jewish blood, got a job as a high-ranking police officer in the Göttingen Allied Military Government. He proved a tough cop, efficient at rounding up local Nazis, but just as rough on others, too. But when his administration was involved in accusations of bribery, embezzlement and maltreatment, the British fired...
Former State Department Official Alger Hiss, 50, released last November after serving 44 months for perjury in denying that he had passed secret Government papers to onetime Communist Courier Whittaker Chambers, was handed a summons by a Manhattan cop. The charge, followed by a plea of guilty: playing catch in a restricted area of Washington Square Park with son Tony, 13, and another lad. Penalty: a $3 fine...
...first show was televised, 14,000 people, hopefully eying the jackpot, had begged to be contestants. The lucky two chosen for the first show: Mrs. Thelma Bennett, a pretty housewife from Trenton, N.J. who is an expert on the movies, and Redmond O'Hanlon, a New York cop, who has five children and a wide knowledge of Shakespeare. Mrs. Bennett missed out on the $8,000 (the question: Name the Columbia movie which won almost all the 1934 Oscars, its stars and its director*), but was sent home with a nice consolation prize: a $5,250 blue Cadillac convertible...
...clock one morning last fortnight, a young Palestinian Arab employed as a senior translator by the Arabian-American Oil Company in Dhahran, was awakened by a Saudi Arabian cop. "Here's the list," softly murmured the Saudi cop, handing over a bit of paper with 72 names scrawled upon it. The translator knew what was expected of him: to check off a new batch of "undesirable" Palestinian Arabs on Aramco's staff, slated for arrest and deportation by royal decree...