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...ovations were for a silvery-haired woman of 71 who has the fresh face of a young girl and the sharp tongue of an impatient schoolmistress. In next month's national election, she is challenging Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan, and the tough field marshal has never had to cope with anything quite like her. Miss Jinnah was clearly getting under his skin. "She is an old recluse and weak-minded," said Ayub. "If you vote for her, you will be inviting chaos...
...television image of the U.S. marshal is still the tall, lean figure of Wyatt Earp tossing hot lead in Dodge City...
...real world the civil rights revolution has changed everything. Though he cannot ride a horse, rarely packs his .38 pistol and admits to raising petunias, broken-nosed ("I got it in the amatoors") Chief U.S. Marshal James Joseph Patrick McShane, 55, has out-Earped Earp while leading his 821 men to war in Birmingham, Montgomery, Tuscaloosa and Oxford. Never before has the nation's senior law-enforcement agency - just 175 years old - looked less like a refuge for political grifters and more like the strong right arm of the nation's 393 federal courts...
...Government law yers. They transport federal prisoners (79,000 last year), serve all federal court papers, from jury notices to Supreme Court orders - a chore that often takes wit and wile. To slap a desegregation injunction on Alabama's well-guarded George Wallace, for example, one deputy marshal stowed away in the men's room aboard the Governor's plane. Marshals have been called upon to seize entire businesses, not to mention stolen art works and such other oddments as a shipment of "Helene Curtis Magic Secret Wrinkle-Smoothing Skin Lotion...
Zest for Battle. Political patronage is still a problem. The country's 92 U.S. marshals (pay: up to $17,000 a year) serve only by favor of the party in power, go out when a new party comes in. Even so, they leave behind their own increasingly career-minded appointees: the 729 deputy and chief deputy marshals, nearly all seasoned ex-policemen, who stay on the job under civil service regulations. Training has sharply improved ever since the Little Rock crisis of 1957 moved the service to learn a great deal more about riot tactics and weapons...