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Already dreaming of a New England championship, the varsity soccer team currently is preparing for its key game of the season which comes up Saturday afternoon against the Indians from Dartmouth. Victory Saturday would establish the Crimson at the heavy favorites to cop the title, which the Dartmouths won last year...
...enough to make a cop lose his faith in the power and prerogatives of the uniform...
Into the Jug. Then, one morning, an Associated Press photographer named Murray Becker arrived in the Mayor's office wearing a mouse under one eye and holding his press card like a hand grenade. He had been waved to the curb by a cop for blowing his horn too loudly in traffic. Becker, who was driving his wife home from the New York Yankees' victory dinner, had made an attempt to square things. He told the policeman: "Look, officer, I'm a working newspaperman. We were in a hurry. I'm sorry...
...cop, he said, replied: "Oh, one of those wise guys that carry a pocketfull of passes and think they can get away with anything...
Then, he charged, the cop dragged him out of the car, took him to the nearest station (leaving his wife sitting in the car), belted him around the head, broke his glasses, and had him heaved, bleeding, into the cooler...