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Boston law requires concert promoters provide police protection to secure a license for their exhibitions. Concerts at Back Bay Theatre are usually covered by five policeman and one sergeant. The Wednesday night concert, twenty-policemen, two sergeants, and a lieutenant will guard the inside of the theatre...
...interview later, DeGuglielmo defended the study. "It's not an investigation and it's not intended to be," he said. "It should make no difference to the policeman if he's told to patrol on one street or another. A greater incidence of crime on one street or another shouldn't raise any controversy...
...Almost a year passes before he announces a new concert. The old affair begins anew. Two hundred candidates for tickets bivouac outside Carnegie Hall with sleeping bags and pillows. Again Horowitz begins to feel the old tensions rising. One day he gets a telephone call from a young mounted policeman, with whom he had chatted several times in his afternoon walks. "You probably know more than all of the people in the audience," says the cop. "You studied longer than them, so why do you have to be nervous?" Says Horowitz: "I was not so nervous after he said that...
...great white wall of segregated Southern justice is finally being breached, as illustrated by some scattered but significant recent events: the nearly unprecedented life sentence for a white youth who raped a Negro girl in Mississippi; eleven Negroes serving on a jury trying the Negro killers of a white policeman in Georgia. Yet the South has a long way to go before Negroes will have gained "equal justice under...
Turning from the gilded window, I took my wonder to a wise old cop I know. He used to work in Boston but he's been a University policeman for years. "Has there really been a change," I asked him. "Or do I just imagine...