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Disobedience. Fear made the whites' reaction as volatile and unpredictably savage as the Negroes' wrath. "It's them or us," growled a Port Elizabeth cop. "A white skin now means death." Prime Minister Daniel Malan's Nationalist government sent army tanks and armored cars to patrol the highway between East London and Port Elizabeth; low-flying planes "exercised" over the "disaffected areas." In the cities, Boers and Britons alike queued up to buy guns; on the veld, Boer farmers organized rifle commandos, itched to "teach the Kaffirs a lesson they won't forget." "The time...
Only Hoffner's letter caught his interest: he not only insisted that he was innocent, but added that a patrolman and a former assistant district attorney believed him. When Mowery heard what the cop and prosecutor had found after five years of hunting for facts, he, too, became convinced that Hoffner's conviction was a miscarriage of justice, and he set to work to prove...
Capitalizing on its "stonewall" defense, Eliot's football team blanked a second-place Leverett eleven, 19 to 0, to cop the House football championship...
Kansas City Confidential (Edward Small; United Artists) combines a "perfect crime" plot with some fair-to-middling moviemaking. An ex-cop (Preston Foster), having engineered what appears to be a foolproof million-dollar bank robbery in Kansas City, takes off for Guatemala with the loot. In the sleepy Central American town, things seem to be even busier than in Kansas City. Foster must cope not only with his accomplices, but also with an ex-con (John Payne) who has been roughed up by the police as a suspect, and who has taken it upon himself to run down the real...
...while after that somebody will invent a boxing referee machine and a traffic cop machine and then a district judge machine, and the silence will become general. We will back down and let the Speed Graphic and the electronic computer move in to eliminate our mistakes. When that time comes they might as well close the college and put the students on learning dictation, for the sporting element, the element of mischance, the umpire element, will have disappeared. In its place will sit the unblinking machine, confident, proficient, and always right...