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Economic Upset. Privately, many Chicago business and civic leaders were shocked by the violence of Daley's cops. As one of them said: "A lot of people are as horrified as I am, but they see no real benefit in saying so as long as Daley remains in power." Some were upset for economic reasons. At week's end four professional and religious groups, including the 25,800-member American Psychological Association and the 2,863,000-member United Church of Christ, canceled plans for conventions in Chicago. The withdrawals will cost the world's largest convention...
...where the bloodied clothes of a slain 14-year-old had lain surrounded by candles, city workmen emplanted rows of blooming red salvias. Then a water truck sprayed the flowers, finishing the job of converting Czechoslovakia's main shrine to its martyrs into just another bit of cosmetic civic landscaping...
...mock the system. During a five day "Festival of Life," they plan to nominate a pig named Pigasus for President. The Chicago police department did not see much humor in the idea. The cops threw seven yippies and their candidate into a paddy wagon when they appeared in Civic Center Plaza. Pigasus was carted, squealing all the way, to the Humane Society...
...shock of Judy Agnew's suddenly expanded life has been little short of traumatic. Previously, her orbit had been limited, by her preference, to luncheons with the Kiwanis' Ki-Wives, the Women's Civic League and the Federation of Republican Women. Entertainment at the Governor's mansion in Annapolis often meant pocket billiards, pingpong, or an evening's placid TV watching in the basement club room...
Deepened Frustration. Four ranking cops were dismissed in a brutality incident last year, but all have been reinstated under the administration of Mayor Loeb. Such wrist-spanking discipline deepens Negro frustration. So does the chest-thumping of Fire and Police Director Frank Holloman, who recently promised an applauding white civic club that if Memphis' Negroes revert to "lawlessness," as he put it, "we'll knock them on their ass." There was further frustration when a bid by Negroes to prevent a sales-tax rise-partly to finance a 50-man increase in the police force-was defeated...