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...everyone responds to the laws of the land and to the orders of superiors, all the way up to the Commander in Chief. As any military man should know, the Army has its own recourse for soldiers who feel their superiors are derelict of duty: a complaint to the inspector general. And another thing: the armed services are quite capable of investigating their own troubles. An occasional and proper congressional inquiry into specific military matters might be a good thing, but the services should be permitted to do their own housekeeping...
...sleeping daughter. When the police arrived, the Mau Mau had thrust a knife into his own chest, and was desperately trying to electrocute himself at the household fuse box. ¶In Wakamba territory, southeast of Nairobi, a gang of screaming tribesmen, shooting pistols and poisoned arrows, attacked a veterinary inspector at Machakos. "We want your head!"they screamed, but Dick McCausland, with an arrow in his arm, valiantly fought them off and retained his head. The Wakamba, 600,000 strong, supply one-third of the rank & file, perhaps half the NCOs in both the Kenya police and the King...
...father's bank. Instead of staying in his cage, Clint spent most of his time drinking coffee and drumming up business at the corner drugstore. He could not be bothered counting small change that was not included in the bank's legal reserves. But a bank inspector reasoned differently, ordered Murchison to count every dime in his cage. Murchison spent a full day doing so. then quit...
Dial M is starred with fine scenes and good performances. Though played as contemporary melodrama, it somehow manages to reflect the gaslight magic of turn-of-the-century London. Murder is the plot, but everyone is extremely gentlemanly about the crime, from the Holmesian police inspector (John Williams) down to the caddish assassin (Anthony Dawson). The crime is conceived by quick-witted Ray Milland, who, losing his wife's love, decides to murder her for her money rather than wait for her to leave him. A solicitous sort who doesn't want to hurt anyone unnecessarily, Milland arranges...
...inspector's shutdown, newest in a five-year series of official and unofficial anti-Protestant blows in Colombia, stems from an agreement between the government and the Vatican. The agreement makes the islands one of 18 Colombian "mission territories" reserved to Catholics. It was signed three years ago, when Catholic, arch-Conservative Laureano Gómez was President...