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...third police chief and second safety director. The mayor was roundly applauded for picking as safety director retired Air Force Lieut. General Benjamin O. Davis Jr., the highest ranking black military officer in U.S. history. But when Stokes chose as police chief William P. Ellenburg, a retired Detroit inspector with 27 years on the force, he hatched a new controversy...
...Balkan kingdom. On hand to greet him were a squad of White House guards caparisoned in Graustarkian dress uniforms festooned with gold braid and nipped at the waist with black leather gunbelts. The black vinyl hats trimmed in gold suggested, by turns, a Ruritanian palace guard, a Belgian customs inspector, and Prince Danilo in The Merry Widow...
...News. Colleagues were leary of a man who had come over from the entertainment side, but he soon won his journalistic spurs. At age 49, Mike did a tour in Viet Nam. At the 1968 Democratic Convention, he took a sock on the jaw from a Chicago police inspector but kept his feet. In the shop, too, Wallace is a pile-driving competitor. He fills almost two-thirds of the air time on 60 Minutes but maintains a fond, prank-playing friendship with Co-Editor Reasoner. Mike gets along well with junior associates too. He is demanding-but always polite...
...Indeed he was. The next day, Lawrence was taken before Colonel Robert M. Cook, inspector-general of the U.S. Military Assistance Command Viet Nam (MACV). After denying him legal counsel, Cook escorted Lawrence to the Orwellian atmosphere of an "interrogation room," complete with blanketed walls, tape recorders and (for purposes unknown) a mattress on the floor. As he resisted persistent questioning, Lawrence said: "I don't believe this is happening...
Garth, the son of a World War I pilot turned agricultural inspector, went farthest in formal study, getting through his first year in music at the University of Western Ontario before taking to the road. Before that he had helped his father rebuild two pump organs and worked through much of Bach's keyboard music (The Well-Tempered Clavier, some 300 chorales). He also briefly played sepulchral organ in his uncle's funeral parlor. "It was terrible," he recalls. "A terrible business...