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...four-year hitch in the Navy, wound up as a Los Angeles gas-station manager. A customer gawked at his size (6 ft. 4 in., 210 Ibs.), suggested that he become a policeman. So did several cops who stopped in for gas. Reddin signed up in 1941 as a $2,040-a-year patrolman, became, in turn, a detective sergeant, adjutant to the traffic chief, lieutenant in charge of training, a much respected captain of the Watts division, deputy chief and head of the technical-services bureau...
...Associated Press Newsman William N. Oatis, who later served two years in a Czech prison on a trumped-up espionage charge. The Czechs also claimed that Kazan once had a role in a gaudy murder in which a secret agent, supposedly firing through his raincoat pocket, killed a policeman in Prague. But when Kazan-Komarek came to trial last week before a three-man tribunal in Prague's municipal courthouse-dressed in the same blue blazer, yellow sports shirt and slacks that he had on when he left Russia-he was no longer charged with being an accomplice...
Married. Marie Tippit, 38, mother of three and widow of Dallas Policeman J. D. Tippit, who was Lee Harvey Oswald's second victim on Nov. 22, 1963, after which donors contributed to a fund for her family that eventually totaled $750,000; and Harry Dean Thomas, 44, a Dallas police lieutenant whom she met last year; both for the second time (he was divorced by his first wife in February 1966); in Dallas...
Angels or Murderers? Repeating his familiar line, Fulbright warns that Washington is alienating most of the world with its "international policeman" tactics. At the same time, he says, the U.S. is thwarting the very nationalism that American policy has traditionally supported. The U.S. should by and large forget about fighting Communism, he urges, and concentrate on backing nationalism; when Communism captures a nationalist movement, the U.S. ought to accept that...
Reality intrudes into their make-believe celluloid world when they seek to exchange their hostage for a bag full of francs. A policeman tries to arrest them for double parking and with one flic, the flick, for them, is over. The boys lose their cool, shoot the cop, and spray the surrounding crowd with a submachine gun; three innocent bystanders die. The thieves flee, and like kids miming a game of cops and robbers they shoot it out on the rocks in an abandoned quarry. But playtime is over; the bullets are for real...