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Kerr said he presented this petition to the Administration Board Monday, and the board rejected the petition and the principle of collective responsibility. Ker said the board then accepted his "judgment" that all 37 were in the corridor...
...team of doctors sent to Viet Nam by the Agency for International Development reported that less than half of the 100,000 civilians wounded each year ever make it to Viet Nam's 58 "hospitals." Those who do generally wind up sleeping on corridor floors, or two or three to a bed. The hospitals are no better than sheds, rife with epidemics. Water and electricity are limited to a few hours a day. Some of the injured wait up to a year for surgery. Through neglect, there are almost twice as many amputees among South Vietnamese civilians as there...
...Climax. The father-to-be nervously paces the hospital corridor, demanding reassurance from doctors and nurses about the coming birth of his child. Surely, the audience decides, it must be his first. But there he is in a phone booth, being fatherly to a family of two young daughters, a 17-year-old boy and pretty brunette wife. He sends them off on a seaside vacation, and there he is on the phone again, talking to another family of two young boys and a pretty blonde mother...
...tried walking two blocks toward the focal point of the riot, but "the eyes of the residents on their front porches seemed to radiate hatred. It was like walking through a corridor of statues with the kind of eyes that follow you wherever you go. Later I grew more confident and strolled the area with impunity-more or less. I made about seven trips among the rioters, perhaps to reassure myself that all this was really happening...
Riots and looting spread through the afternoon over a 10.8-sq.-mi. area of the West Side almost as far north as the Northland Shopping Center. An entire mile of Twelfth Street was a corridor of flame; firemen answering the alarms were pelted with bricks, and at one point they abandoned their hoses in the streets and fled, only to be ordered back to the fire by Cavanagh...