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News. In San Francisco, Night City Editor Larry McManus of the Chronicle got a call from a country correspondent about a traffic policeman injured in a fall from his motorcycle, asked where the cop had been going, got the reply: "Oh, to some airplane crash...
Morning After. Two Klansmen drove the car and its three occupants to the outskirts of the town of Manchester, carefully wiped the steering wheel clean of fingerprints and vanished. Minutes later, discovered by a Manchester cop, the newsmen landed in the Manchester jail charged with drunkenness. Their city editor, Joe Hall, bailed them...
...Yard cop Richard Ikels thought something amiss early Saturday morning when he spied a lone figure leaving Thayer Hall with three topcoats, a jacket, and a new Underwood typewriter. Hauled in Cambridge city court, the man gave his name as Russel H. Peterson and later pleaded gulliy to a charge of larceny...
...Supremacy of the Cop. In countries truer to Marx, where control of The Machine has actually been taken away from the capitalist, the most extraordinary growth occurred in the meaning of "control." Control of production by "the state," in place of ownership by private people, turned out to need bolstering up. It meant control of speech, thought and personal life. It was not the freed worker who replaced the capitalist; it was the cop, the spy, the bureaucrat...
Tokyo police warned of another hazard. The black market, they said, is full of cigarettes (at 2½ yen apiece) containing a filler of horse dung. Said one cop: "Many people are smoking them, and we are surprised at how few are aware of what they are made...