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...same issue, Thomas F. Pettigrew, professor Social Psychology, criticized the anti-busing conclusions of an article printed last summer in The Public Interest by David J. Armor, professor of Sociology...
Pettigrew's article said that Armor's evidence was "biased and incomplete," and that his conclusions were based on unrealistic standards. Armor founded his conclusions from a "weak METCO study"--a study of busing in Boston--and on the assumption that integration is a technical rather than a constitutional matter, the article said...
...Armor's rebuttal to Pettigrew's criticism, included in the winter 1973 issue, said that Pettigrew presented a distorted and incomplete review of the subject, and the Pettigrew and his associates missed the entire point of the study...
...Armor said that he only dealt with what happened, not what might happen under other conditions or what should have happened, and that social science must show facts no matter how painful they might...
...least two, since blazes were set almost simultaneously on different floors. A besieging army of 200 uniformed policemen, detectives, sharpshooters and volunteers soon surrounded the motel. As the cordon tightened, the assailants found refuge behind the concrete walls of the rooftop's boiler room and stairwell casements. An armor-plated Marine helicopter made repeated passes as the cops tried to blast through the walls, but the sniper shots kept coming. Finally, eleven hours after the violence had begun, one lone sniper darted under the glare of a helicopter spotlight, ran about 30 ft. in a zigzag pattern across...