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...brought action to achieve that distinction. Across the country, women make up an estimated 1.5% of the police forces, mainly in low-ranking positions. New York's Gertrude Schimmel, on becoming the city's first woman police captain last summer (she has since been promoted to deputy inspector), was asked if she ever expected to see woman appointed police commissioner. She answered: "Only by the first woman mayor...
...schools-and even tried a year of law school. I wore a Tattersall vest. I even wore a hat, for God's sake. Not a red hunting cap, I mean a hat. A whaddyacall it. A fedora. My father used to rate me like a New York pollution inspector: good, acceptable, unhealthy. I became a Good...
...found stabbed to death in the surrounding countryside. The schoolmistress herself discovers one of the bodies on an outing with her class. Lying against a nearby stone is a cigarette lighter like the one which she had given the butcher. She slips it into her pocket. Later a police inspector tells her that the woman had been killed only moments before the teacher found the body. Clearly the butcher meant the woman's death as a signal, and the teacher accepts it as such. But instead of fright, she feels a strange excitement that makes her lead the killer...
...both his English name, John Stephenson, and his adopted Gaelic name. Caught up in the republican movement through his Irish heritage, he married an Irish girl from Cork after having served three years in the R.A.F. and joined the I.R.A. He also worked for British Railways as a trainee inspector, a job that gave him free tickets to Ireland for himself and his family. Imprisoned at Wormwood Scrubbs in 1953 for his part in an I.R.A. raid for arms, he learned Gaelic, read revolutionary literature, and picked up a knowledge of modern Greek from the EOKA prisoners from Cyprus...
...room of their feed store in Compton, Calif. Each had been shot twice, and the cash register was empty. Eight weeks later, following up an informant's tip, police officers arrested Bozzie Bryant Burton III, then 16. Young Burton asked to talk to his father, an auto-plant inspector who was already at the station in search of his son, but the police refused. They did advise him, however, of his right to remain silent and to consult an attorney. In the course of the interrogation the boy admitted that he had killed the Diosdados. He was subsequently convicted...