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...marchers. "Calm down, men," said Engler. "We don't want any trouble here." But A.F.L. men, marching 30 abreast, slogged on, pushing the police before them. Half a dozen marchers tried for a breakthrough. The first man rushed head down through the police line, was caught by a cop's uppercut, sent sprawling to the ground. Four policemen pummeled him with fists and clubs and carried him, bleeding and blaspheming, from the scene. The others were dealt with in the same swift, rough, manner...
...unseen traffic cop is a radar meter. Of several brands the most commonly used is a 40-lb. aluminum-sheathed box with two sets of antennas and a price tag of $1,100.* It fits snugly into the rear of a prowl car. As a speeding car approaches, the meter's transmitting antenna sends out high-frequency radio waves that bounce off the car, change frequency and are picked up by the receiving antenna. The difference between the two frequencies tells the speed accurately (within 2 m.p.h.). (In a group of cars, the meter picks out the one that...
Most movies--and indeed, most plays and novels--which treat such basic conflicts manage to kick away the dramatic possibilities by reducing them to Cowboy and Indian, Cop and Robber puppet shows in which both the outcome and characterizations are as automatic as a pinball machine. The plot may get bounced around a good deal, but it always ends up in the same place. The audience unconsciously knows that everything will turn out all right in the end, and thus its attention is never fully concentrated on the screen...
...leaves into an officer's face, then sprinted for the Yard. But the police ignored the bold agitator, and dragged a smirking youth without his Card toward the basement of Lehman. Now thinning, the ralliers stamped and shouted as the door closed on the unfortunate one. Yells of "The cop beats his wife," rose above the roar...
Only casualties in the brief encounter were 30 freshmen, who lost their bursar's cards. One hardy yard Cop dispersed the courageous Confederates, but a few decorated John with a Confederate flag before retreating...