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Pass keys are issued to caretaking and maintenance crews for easy access to the bathrooms, but no University policeman at the fire had a pass...
Dean W. Chandler '65, in suite 604, awakes to the sound of breaking glass and a policeman's whistle. He rushes from his seventh-floor bedroom -- directly above the burning living room--to the door of 602. When he opens the door, the fire is out of control and is blazing so violently that the draft it creates prevents him from closing the door...
...real dispute, of course, is not about crime--everyone is against that--but about what police should do with the persons they detain, arrest, and question. Recent Supreme Court rulings have tended to extend the rights of individuals in police custody. Buckley thinks that these rulings have tied the policeman's hands, and he wants to unleash the police on anyone who might be a criminal...
...harsh police crackdown, and he hired as police commissioner a liberal Justice of the Michigan State Supreme Court, George Edwards. Edwards, who is now a Federal Circuit Judge, immediately antagonized the police by insisting on equal treatment for Negroes. His insistence paid off: a 1963 incident (a policeman shot a Negro prostitute; Edwards ruled it self-defense) that would have sparked a riot in many cities, led to only token picketing in Detroit...
Slightly Unfashionable. Proust's anguished genius gets the same policeman-like inquisition, but by a wholly sympathetic cop. The novelist's homosexuality, his experiments in degradation, weigh no more and no less than his unfailing kindness to inferiors, his fabulous powers of observation, his unequaled ability to transmute the stuff of his own aberrant life into a work of art that no thinking human can ignore...