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...chief of detectives after Parker died, Reddin took a battery of tests-for the top post that pitted him against Inspector James G. Fisk, the department's articulate chief of community relations. Fisk had toiled to heal the wounds of Watts, sending white-Negro police teams into ghetto schools, running workshops for gang members, assigning patrolmen to walk around meeting people and "dispel stereotypes." On the test scores, Fisk beat Reddin by a hairline half of 1%. The city's five police commissioners nonetheless picked Reddin for his overall depth and breadth. As deputy chief, Fisk will expand...
...play-and the role-could hardly be more distant from Scofield's last two productions, Shakespeare's Timon of Athens and Gogol's The Government Inspector. Staircase is an offbeat black comedy about a homosexual "marriage"; Scofield plays a middle-aged barber; his partner is Patrick Magee, who played Sade in the London and Broadway companies of Marat /Sade...
...current Police Chief, the top U.S. police magazine, Philadelphia's Chief Inspector Harry G. Fox proudly limns the C.D. man as an uncowed, unbiased "ethical example," who "refuses to act as judge or jury no matter the provocation." C.D. work may have little effect on the number of demonstrations taking place, says Fox. But it will have a "major effect" on overall police efficiency and "public reaction to the use of police powers...
...discovers that 79 bottles of expensive spirits have somehow been transfomed into 79 bottles of weak tea. When he questions the staff, a pretty young clerk (Anne Heywood) flies into hysterics and runs out of the shop. Excited by his sudden power to dominate what he desires, the inspector without further investigation decides that the girl is guilty and calls in the police. That night she kills herself. Next day the inspector discovers that she had only been protecting the real culprit: the handsome young manager of the store...
...eyes, and for one terrible instant he sees that he looks like a pig because he is a pig. For one terrible instant he stands ready to pay for the girl's life by taking his own. Next day, still looking like a small grey pig, the inspector is back on the job, back on the prowl. Character is fate...