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Says Harvard Urbanologist James Q. Wilson, who is conducting a comprehensive study of the nation's police: "There is no evidence that anything but an immediate and large show of force will stop a riot." In Detroit, said the Michigan Chronicle, the city's biggest Negro newspaper, "a firm hand would have chased those people away. You can be firm without shooting." Nor is it true, as Chester Robinson insists, that "in the initial stages of a disturbance we [i.e., Negro leaders] can handle the people ourselves." Says Wilson: "Negro leaders have tried to stop riots...
With the proper training and planning, however, some police departments have shown that they can be an effective force against all but the biggest riots-especially in the early stages. New York's 690-man Tactical Patrol Force, created in 1959 to deal with Negro and Puerto Rican youth gangs, and later converted to riot control, is perhaps the best unit of its kind in the country. The elite T.P.F. members are all volunteers and average a vigorous 26 years in age; many of them have served in the Marines and paratroopers. Though most are experts at judo...
...investment in worldwide distribution. The success raised Actor Eastwood's fees; he got $15,000 for Fistful, now commands $500,000 a picture. It also encouraged Leone. Pouring on the tomato sauce, he followed last year with A Few Dollars More, which has become the second biggest money maker in Italian film history (No. 1: Dino De Laurentiis' War and Peace...
Instead, Andrews knocked a beautiful bunt down the third base line and was standing on first base with the score tied before the Angels knew what had happened. Moments later the Sox' biggest gun, Carl Yastrzemski, walloped a bases-loaded double off the left field wall and Boston went...
...city where the Red Sox now make the headlines over the Detroit riots, where politicians invoke the ball club's name in attacks on the governor, and where even arty types are catching pennant fever, the biggest crowd of the season (34,193) gushed with emotion that has been unknown in Fenway Park since Ted Williams led the team to the Series...