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...Pusan's days & nights are noisy with the clatter of U.S. military traffic, ancient taxis, rachitic streetcars (some from Atlanta), and the snorting and lowing of oxen. In dry weather dust all but obscures the city's one traffic light, which is attended by a listless Korean cop. In wet weather the streets are covered by an evil black slime. Sailors say that Pusan's stench can be detected ten miles...
Blue Urge. In San Antonio, after he was arrested trying to steal a police launch on the San Antonio River, George R. Perry, 19, explained: "I want to be a cop...
...Information Service. Roberto Mujica Lainez, a onetime Argentine newsman, was confronted at police headquarters with a stack of papers taken from his home. One showed a diagram of the seating arrangement for a dinner party he had just given. "What are these blueprints for?" barked a cop. Finally released, Mujica was ordered not to tell a word about the questioning...
...story is simply what happens when an honest cop tries to take a star witness, widow of a notorious Capone-like character, to the coast to testify before the Grand Jury. Naturally, the boys in Chi would rather this moll didn't live to sing. But uncorruptible and battling, if a little dim-witted, the forces of virtue and justice...
...daddy, a fake blind man, is one of Motes's competitors in street preaching; another is Onnie Jay Holy, whose religious interest runs mainly to the collection plate. Motes's career comes to a gruesome end when he deliberately blinds himself because a mean-spirited cop has pushed his unlicensed Essex over a cliff...