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...beginning of The Laughing Policeman, a Stockholm bus is found with eight people sitting in their seats, all shot to death. For thriller readers, a parallel tragedy has just struck. Last month Per Wahlöö died at 48 of pancreatic disease. Since his widow does not intend to continue their Martin Beck series, the literary toll seems higher than the one in the bus. It is as if an entire family of friends were abruptly wiped out. Few thriller writers have interwoven so many good recurring characters with their plots; only the late Margery Allingham comes to mind...
...brainwashing' black children to be passive or nonaggressive. We fear this has or can lead to acceptance of and adjustment to an unjust society." Blacks must always stand up for their rights, they believe, especially before authority figures, but never in self-destructive ways. When a policeman, for example, calls a black a "nigger," the incident should be reported immediately to the N.A.A.C.P. or another group in a position to take action. The authors also advise blacks to become active in the N.A.A.C.P. and similar organizations...
...Hats. The victory, together with the World Championship Tennis title that he won in Dallas last May, puts Ashe at the very top of his profession for the first time. Son of a policeman, he learned tennis at the age of ten from a black physician in Richmond, Va., who hoped to develop the first black player to win the national Interscholastic Championships. Ashe won that tournament in 1961. As a freshman at U.C.L.A. in 1963, he achieved top-ten ranking among U.S. tennis players and has remained there...
Businessmen, Engman observes wryly, "love free enterprise but hate competition, which is something for the other guy." He sees the FTC as "the policeman on the economic beat," charged with ensuring that free competition survives. Yet though he wants smaller businesses to survive, he has no sympathy for inefficiency. In fact, his assault on outmoded federal regulatory agencies stems from his belief that they perpetuate poor business practices. He argues that the Civil Aeronautics Board and the Interstate Commerce Commission have allowed the regulated transportation industries to become "federal protectorates living in a cozy world of 'cost-plus...
...been shocked by the scope of its crime problem. In the middle and late 19th century, sudden prosperity, immigration and the dislocations of the Civil War produced several crime waves. In 1855 the gang population of New York stood at 30,000, and one gang posted notices that any policeman wandering into its neighborhood would be shot. At the turn of the century, Chicago saloonkeepers could expect to be held up every three or four days. Innocent gas-meter readers were being shot by paranoid householders. Newspapers observed that there were too many six-year-old boys roaming the streets...