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...Revolution? "You know, during most Latin American revolutions, the traffic cop still directs traffic, the postman still delivers mail and life goes on pretty much as usual as far as the foreigner and the foreign investor are concerned...
More important, he had become a man. Today, says Rocky, "I can walk down Broadway or First Avenue or even Fifth Avenue and this is my town. My name is Rocky Graziano . . . and what's yours? I got a right to ask anybody that, even a cop . . . It's a free world and it's a big country which I know stretches away across the Jersey flats to where the jail is in the water, San Francisco. I am happy that I am Rocky Graziano and that I am living in this here country...
...undefeated varsity swimming team seems certain to cop its tenth straight victory and secure second place in the Eastern intercollegiate Swimming League for the fourth consecutive year when it wallops Columbia at 4;00 p.m. today on Morningside Heights...
...Look out for Loulou," was a warning often whispered in the Paris underworld when chunky Louis Métra was chief of the Vice and Narcotic Brigade. A Parisian cop since 1925, "Loulou" Métra, a mild, tactful and polite fellow, had an insidious talent for winning the confidence of shady characters. The labyrinths of Parisian vice being what they are, Loulou was also skill ful at extricating prominent citizens from embarrassing situations. Once he got the delicate task of recovering a royal jewel impulsively presented by a visiting for eign prince to a professional homosexual...
...women back to their apartment and caught them busily boiling down a batch of opium. There was still no direct proof that Métra had provided the opium, but the police kept watching and waiting. The watching was doubly difficult since Métra knew all the cop tricks, and it would not do to trail him in the familiar black Citroen...