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...flight engineer with the rank of sergeant in World War II, Wallace still receives an allowance for "nervous disability" from the Veterans Administration; despite constant air travel on his campaigns, he has a phobia about flying. Before going to war, he had received a law degree from the University of Alabama, and in 1946 he won election to the state house of representatives; in 1952 he was elected a state judge. He made his first, unsuccessful, try for the governorship in 1958. His opponent, John Patterson, had taken a harsher line on race, and Wallace learned a lesson. "They...
More interesting is the darker side of "professionalization"--the legalistic style. The police try to do the impossible: go by the letter of the law all the time. They act like book-following Joe Fridays even in an obscure quarrel on a back street. Or, as an Oakland sergeant puts...
...during the week of the Democratic Convention were "in line with the policies of Hanoi, Peking and Moscow"-which must mark the first time in years that Moscow and Peking have lined up together. From Chicago itself came two members of the city's police intelligence unit. Police Sergeant Joseph Grubisic revealed that "captured documents" disclosed plans by the demonstrators to heckle the presidential candidates, harass voters at the polls on Election Day and, finally, to crash the presidential inauguration in Washington next January...
...story could have been transmuted into a film of coruscating irony. Instead, Richardson has chosen to subordinate the drama to an illustrated primer on sociology. With facile juxtapositions, he shuttles between the airless, reeking slums and the sunlit gardens of the Victorian aristocracy. The bloody flogging of a sergeant is contrasted with the gleaming comfort of an officers' mess. Richardson sporadically punctuates the action with animated cartoons of the Russian bear and the British lion ruffling the feathers of the Turkish turkey. The animations, done in the style of period Punch cartoons, are wittily rendered by Richard Williams...
...then, to save them from this awful purposelessness, this dreadful freedom, their Sergeant reappears, and ... hurray? They are still on the force! "File the report. Finish up," he says in his hard but secretly loving...