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...scene around 1466 East 54th St., a yellow frame and stucco building, quickly took on a surrealistic air. While sweating TV camera crews toted their equipment into place, 18 heavily armed members of the Los Angeles police department's special weapons and tactics unit (known as SWAT) got ready for battle. Wearing bulky flak jackets, they closed in on the house and gently clicked off the safeties on their semiautomatic weapons. Curious neighbors wandered over, largely unimpeded, to see what was happening. Knots of people stood in their backyards, waiting for some Friday-night entertainment. Minutes later...
...about the same time, Mrs. Mary Carr, 52, dropped by to visit her daughter, Minnie Lewis, who lived with Christine Johnson at 1466 East 54th St. To her astonishment, Mrs. Carr learned that her daughter had put up a group of strangers the previous night-people who had been willing to pay $100. Mrs. Carr later said that she saw one of the visitors-a white woman who was wearing a pistol belt. The stranger patted her gun and smiled at Mrs. Carr. It was a cocky and senseless gesture of power...
Japan has never had a tradition of private or corporate philanthropy. Nevertheless, last week the huge Mitsubishi group of industries gave $1,000,000 to endow a professorship in Japanese legal studies at Harvard Law School. The occasion was the 54th anniversary of a similar gift by U.S. Banker A. Barton Hepburn for a chair in American studies at Tokyo University Law School. For Mitsubishi, Harvard was a logical choice: it has both great prestige and some of America's foremost Asian specialists, including Edwin O. Reischauer, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan...
Harvard placed 13th in the race. Harvard's leading runner, Mike Koerner, finished 54th...
...rankings are still inconclusive this early in the season, only Glenn Ford (Cade's County) even makes the top half of the chart, ranking 20th among the 67 prime-time programs. At last count, The Jimmy Stewart Show is in 44th place, Tony Curtis' The Persuaders is 54th, Anthony Quinn's The Man and the City 66th, and Shirley's World, with Shirley MacLaine, is 67th and last...