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...practical of headgear. It had a tendency to fall off when the wearer chased a fleeing criminal, and it did not keep the rain off the neck. Still, an era ended earlier this month when the kepi began disappearing from the heads of police in Paris and elsewhere. The round, pillbox cap is being replaced by a flat-topped, short-beaked hat of the style worn by U.S. police...
Welch had his own way with similes: he described people "like bottles walking; their heads as inexpressive as round stoppers. What if some god or giant should bend down and take several of the stoppers out? I thought. Inside there would be black churning depths like bile, or bitter medicine." But it is his wary view of the adult world that lingers. Even a Punch and Judy show has an ominous significance: when Punch "began hitting the baby with hard wooden thuds I felt its skull crack and knew that none of us were safe while grown-ups thought that...
Under Reagan, the FBI's Counterintelligence budget has tripled, which means that the FBI can keep track of more suspects and conduct round-the-clock surveillance when necessary. (It can take 16 agents working in shifts to watch one suspect.) The Administration has also put an FBI agent on the staff of the National Security Council, a move that symbolizes concerns about the dangers of espionage...
...preparing to leave for the Geneva summit. The "building blocks" commercial, hastily put together for the Committee for a Strong Peaceful America by Democratic Media Merlin Robert Squier, was created to deflect the impact of the first ad. These two commercials are merely the first and most publicized round in the great Star Wars Public Relations War, a duel of imagery that is bound to escalate even faster than the arms race...
Like Rocky Balboa, the movie boxer, the plan to change the federal tax system keeps coming back for more punishment. Just when the idea has been battered to the canvas, it struggles to its feet again. Last week reform went another round, this time energized by a fresh proposal from the House Ways and Means Committee. Some of the populist ideals found in the Reagan Administration's two earlier proposals remain alive in this one. The bill would cut tax rates, close loopholes, give relief to millions of working poor people and make corporations carry a greater share...