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Police bent over backwards to see that delegates were not molested. One bus driver, who seemed more confused than indignant when two girl delegates, one white and one colored, entered his bus and sat together, called for a cop. After the policeman spotted the convention badges worn by the girls, he instructed the driver to go ahead and say nothing. The city's segregation ordinance was also quietly set aside so that delegates could hold a dance at a local dance hall...
...harmless-looking sort-he had the severe mouth, high forehead and martyred gaze of a divinity student; he was nearsighted, and wore rimless spectacles. No cop bothered him as he wandered toward the Washington Monument in the national capital one evening last week, with a .38 revolver and a roll of adhesive tape in his pocket. Though it was still light, he ducked, unnoticed, into the front seat of a parked sedan...
...First grandson of a winner ever to cop the Kentucky Derby...
...good old days before World War II, a cop knew where he stood, in New Rochelle, in New York's staid Westchester County. It was Suburbia for the Suburbanites then, and, except for a few rough spots, keeping the peace was a cinch. Every now & then some shady-looking characters in veils and spangles would wander into town, but a good cop would spot them quick for what they were, and run them in. As one of New Rochelle's finest explained it delicately last week: "You know, gypsies-always out to commit some larceny by theft...
Nowadays things are not so simple. A lot of United Nations people had settled down in the calm, tree-shaded streets of Westchester. Some of these people come from countries no cop ever even heard of before. Nevertheless, a cop has got to do his duty as he sees...