Word: patrolmen
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...Stanley Kubrick's chiller: gangs of youths rampaged, snatching tickets from fans, breaking into parked cars, seizing a city bus, attempting unsuccessfully to get into the stadium. An attractive woman was shoved face-first into a concrete wall outside the ballpark, and while she bleated in terror, three patrolmen watched unmoving. Pickpockets bumped profitably through the crowd lifting wallets, and young thugs from the wasteland of the South Bronx grabbed women's bottoms and tore open bodies. Some 500 uniformed New York police supposedly guarding the stadium had made no more than an occasional arrest by the night...
...National Weather Service in Denver warned of severe thunderstorms and noted the possibility of flooding. Shortly thereafter, County Sheriff Bob Watson began to worry about the campers and residents in the Big Thompson canyon. At about 8:30 p.m. two of his deputies and two state patrolmen started trying to persuade people to move out. Most of them stayed put, pointing out that it was not even raining where they were. "We had trouble convincing them that the river was even coming up," says Watson. "They'd want to know if it was coming up to here," (he touched...
...list, due to expire April 30, has been suspended for 13 months starting in 1974 in response to a suit brought by a group of black patrolmen who wanted more black sergeants. The city bypassed the list until the number of black sergeants was increased to a representative level...
...other patrolmen were passed over for promotion when the list was reinstituted. They have filed $100,000 damage suits in U.S. District Court claiming that their equal opportunity rights were violated when 25 patrolmen with lower exam scores received promotion ahead of them...
...Patrolmen Edward Hussey and Peter DeLuca achieved the fourth and fifth best scores on the exam but have not yet been promoted to sergeant, James Pool, DeLuca's attorney, said yesterday...