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...been no wholesale rioting in the black ghettos of the U.S. since the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in April 1968. By a Department of Justice count, the number of racial disturbances of all sizes has fallen off sharply in 1969 from the two previous summers (see chart, next page). The 1965 holocaust of Watts left 34 dead and $40 million in property damage; 43 died in the Detroit riots of 1967 and damage there was also $40 million. This summer's biggest outbreak was a three-night June melee without fatalities in Omaha that destroyed...
...defeat was more their style. Baseball, according to a hoary cliche, is a game of inches. The Mets lost by feet, even yards, and they did so with agonizing regularity. In their first seven seasons they threw away the awesome total of 737 games while winning only 394 (see chart, page 51). Only the staunchest of supporters could have sat in the stands through those long afternoons and borne the relentless booting of ground balls, the repeated mistakes on the base paths, the dreary succession of batsmen looking at called third strikes...
...entertainments, the election of Warren G. Harding and the stock market crash of '29. (One of his hired hands -a rather unsteady parody of the real Arnold Rothstein-amuses himself with the trivial business of fixing the 1919 World Series.) Somewhere in the middle of the corporate organization chart, Al Capone also works for Eddie...
Proof of this can be found in the group's first LP, Blind Faith (Atco), which reached No. 3 on the Billboard chart this week and has topped $1,000,000 in sales in only a month. Win-wood's composition, Can't Find My Way Home, is a farm-fresh plaint, which he sings in a sad falsetto over Baker's insinuating brushwork and the harpsichord-like plucking of two acoustic guitars. Blind Faith's version of the old Buddy Holly tune, Well All Right, skips along with a blithe country feeling, and Clapton...
Frieda Arkin has found a real, snug little place for herself in northern New York State, name of Kuyper's Dorp. Halfway between the Adirondacks and the Catskills. Or-if you prefer to chart it on another map-halfway between the delicate perceptions of Our Town and the guff of Peyton Place...