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...Looting. At the car, the officers found a Negro married couple quarreling. To clear the intersection, they tried to pull the woman, Mrs. Odessa Bradford, 34, out of the driver's seat. She kicked and punched them. A crowd of Negroes began to gather. Negro James Nettles, 41, jumped the officers from behind. One cop reached the police car radio, shouted two words into the mike: "Assist officer." That brought every available cruiser in the area. Nettles and Mrs. Bradford were led into a police wagon-but the riot...
...museums are among the best. The Science Museum of Philadelphia's Franklin Institute boasts 425 audience-participation devices ranging from a simple prism that refracts light rays to a 350-ton Baldwin locomotive that moves up and down a track. Boston's "science smorgasbord," as Director Henry Bradford Washburn calls it, includes a bucket pendulum that dribbles sand in harmonic patterns, a working cloud chamber, and a reproduction of a ship's bridge equipped with radar, sonar, gyroscopes, steering mechanism and a view of the Charles River...
Vested Interest. Among the celebrities who have sounded off on record are CBS Newsman Walter Cronkite and film stars Dana Wynter, Ed Begley and Bradford Dillman. Most volunteers are college-educated housewives, who usually read general histories and biographies. When a request comes in from a blind student (each needs about eight books a year), it is relayed from Manhattan to the field unit best staffed to read the subject intelligently. For that reason all but one unit-Oak Ridge, Tenn.-are located near a university with a good library and a big pool of specialists...
...Died. Bradford Smith, 55, historian and biographer, who in nine impressively documented books (Bradford of Plymouth, Captain John Smith) retraced the paths of early American history and came to some surprising conclusions: that William Bradford (an ancestor) had aimed the Mayflower at New England, not Virginia, as historians supposed, and that Captain John Smith (no kin) was indeed saved by Pocahontas, a tale long suspected as too tall to be true; of cancer; in Shaftsbury...
...Bradford scored for Yale at 9:04, and 15 seconds later Brian Rapp slammed a Gibson feed past Orm Hammond. Gibson tallied at 13:22 to give Yale a 6-3 halftime edge...