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...left to place the bets, and by the time I returned with two show stubs on Casey's choice, she had bought a fifty dollar chunk of Omm Paul's nose. The horses left the gate well, and Mike was right; his animal was good--good enough to cop an easy second...
...before the city's unfinished cathedral, for a "March of the Empty Pots." Policemen with loudspeakers warned the strikers to disperse. Instead the crowd grew. Firemen turned their hoses on the strikers, who reacted with laughter and jeers until the plainclothesmen waded in, swinging rubber truncheons. Saber-wielding cops on horses charged into the mob. Tear-gas bombs ricocheted off iron-shuttered shops and cobbled streets. Fifteen strikers were wounded, one cop stabbed...
...spent $5 for a bus ticket and rode to Chicago. To conserve his money, he spent the first night under a bush in Grant Park. But he decided to live as openly as possible and simply ignore the threat of recapture. He asked a policeman for directions. The cop replied politely. Reinhold invented a new name, Phillip Brick, applied for a Social Security card, and got it with no trouble at all. He went to work as a dishwasher, then as a bookstore clerk...
When Barnes put in one-way streets, not a few Denver citizens insisted on driving the wrong way on them. "Look, sonny," cried an irascible oldtimer who was stopped by a cop, "I've been driving this way on this street for 20 years, and no traffic engineer is going to stop...
...secret police in 1921. Brought to Moscow by Stalin in 1938 to head the secret police after Yezhov was purged. Operates the largest slavelabor economy in the world, exploiting some 14 million prisoners; also bosses the Red A-bomb project. Elected to the Politburo, 1946. Looks not like a cop but a bald, shrewdeyed, pmce-nezed scholar; is quiet, methodical, enjoys the arts, music; can be convivial or merciless. Married two children lives in a suburban dacha, commutes to work in a black bulletproof Packard that looks like a hearse. An oldtime buddy of Malenkov. Travel beyond the Iron Curtain...