Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...close call. Last week one of the seven strikers, Sean McKenna, 26, sentenced to 25 years for terrorist offenses including the attempted murders of a policeman and a Protestant civilian, was reported to be going blind from lack of food. He was described as comatose and close to death; a visiting relative said he looked like a "yellow skeleton." Amid warnings that McKenna had only 24 hours to live, prison authorities brought in a priest to give him the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church. After the strike was called off, the fear remained that he might still...
...seven "Merritt Parkway Bra" murders in Stamford, Conn., Lieutenant George Mayer, arrived. Detroit police lent the services of Lieutenant Gilbert Hill, who cleared up the "Browning Gang" case that had claimed 15 victims. And out of retirement came Captain Pierce Brooks, who caught the killers of a Los Angeles policeman in the celebrated "Onion Field" case...
Another time, the rooming group caught the attention of a Harvard policeman, who saw them running frantically across the Yard. When he stopped them, they had to tell him they were hysterical because they had seen a cockroach "big enough to saddle" in their room. "Somedays we just don't stop laughing," Gardiner says...
...city's Lincoln Savings and Loan Association offers not toasters or blenders, but pocket cans of spray repellent. Newly acquired Doberman guard dogs growl inside increasing numbers of Bade County homes; sales of sophisticated burglar alarm systems and rudimentary iron bars for doors are booming. Says a Miami policeman: "Sometimes I think I'm in Dodge City...
...until all the volunteers in the neighborhood are notified. Armed with pencils and notebooks instead of .38s, the crime watchers jot down details of the crime and suspects before the police arrive. Local authorities give the program high marks. "It's fantastic," says one South Miami policeman. "I wish I had a hundred of them." And without guns, the C.C.W. manages to be the area's most genuine example of law and order...