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...have never been clubbed by a policeman, I was not around for University Hall last April, I was not teargases at the Justice Department in Washington. Yet as I walked toward the Cambridge Police Station- an odd-shaped, four-story building on Western Avenue that doubles as head-quarters for the Cambridge VFW and American Legion- I felt an inexplicable, and totally unfounded, anxiety. The closer I got to the station, the more convinced I became that I didn't really want to talk to the chief in the first place. Surely he didn't want to talk...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Rapping With the Cambridge Cops | 3/23/1970 | See Source »

...very psychological effect." Cochran said. "I don't think that the average policeman in the street will walk without a gun. And anyway, most officers have shot their weapon only in practice." I was wondering if either he or Powers foresaw the day when policemen in Cambridge, or anywhere in America, would no longer carry guns. Obviously, it is not likely that that day will ever come. But what changes are forthcoming in police departments within the next decade...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Rapping With the Cambridge Cops | 3/23/1970 | See Source »

...little bit difficult for a policeman to respect someone's rights while he is wiping that someone's saliva from his face, or pulling a rock out of his eye. I like to believe that the majority of people would be inclined to place the trust and safety of their rights in the hands of the police, lest they be trampled by these heroic martyrs of Judge Hoffman's courtroom. And after seeing a few of the pictures of the police alongside of these seven paragons of Christian virtue, I can't help wondering where they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 23, 1970 | 3/23/1970 | See Source »

...nowhere for the truck to stay at night (you can't park anything all nights on the streets) so the truck was just left in front of the Harvard Club and various members stayed up all night watching to see that it wasn't hauled away. Sometimes a policeman would drive down the street, stop and look at the truck, go a little further, stop and look back, drive around the block...

Author: By Christine Taylor, | Title: From Pierian Sodality Serenading the Ladies For Fun-and Credit To Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra | 3/20/1970 | See Source »

...reason to worry about the quality of U.S. life. But unlike most people, Johnson has not only a mandate but also the power to do something about it. As head of a little-known federal agency within the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, he is in effect the policeman of the entire U.S. environment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The People's Protector | 3/16/1970 | See Source »

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