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...well-dressed, middle-aged man walked into a branch of Tokyo's Teikoku Bank wearing the armband of a municipal official. Claiming that he was a city health inspector, the man ordered the bank manager to summon all his employees so that he could give them a dose of antidysentery medicine. The employees gulped the potion, then collapsed in agony. From the open vaults, the medicine man grabbed about $185 in cash and disappeared into the street. Behind him, twelve people lay dead of cyanide poisoning...
...investigation by the Department of Environmental Health has thus far failed to discover the cause of numerous cases of food poisoning which occurred in Adams House last week, Wilfred B. Krabek, sanitary inspector, reported yesterday...
...also raises sharp questions about the quality of U.S. service academies, says David Boroff, 45, professor of English at New York University and the nation's liveliest critic-inspector of colleges and universities (Campus, U.S.A.). "As sympathetically as possible," World War II Veteran Boroff (corporal, Army Intelligence) set out last winter to scrutinize West Point, Annapolis and the Air Force Academy. The current Harper's publishes his third and final report: a blast at service academy education as so full of "narcissistic preening" that it may be too unreal for the real world...
Badge of Honor. The son of a West Roxbury, Mass., fire inspector, Harvard-man ('33) George Frazier has spent most of his life as a freelance writer and a fulltime embellisher of his self-anointed role as an eccentric. When the mood hits him, he drives 464 miles to Buffalo, where the Charter House Motel serves a salad dressing to his taste. He wears $265 suits, brings his own hot dogs to baseball games, and snoots the common man. "Can it seriously be argued," he asked, after observing the deportment of a hockey crowd, "that these ignorant, ill-clad...
...camera, I think, is going to be our best inspector...