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...first press conference after the battle of Chicago, Mayor Richard Daley was gruff and to the point. "Gentlemen," he said last week, thrusting his jaw out for angry emphasis, "get this thing straight for once and for all. The policeman isn't there to create dis order. The policeman is there to pre serve disorder...
...poor, blacks and antiwar dissenters had profoundly affected government-something they once felt powerless to do. But then came a counterreaction of other Americans who feel threatened by change and civil disorders, to say nothing of youth's drug culture and new sexual freedom. As if to further dis illusion youth, the No. 1 domestic political issue may well be "law and order" rather than social justice...
...there is the ill-starred Dancer's Image. "Tarnished Image," the cynics were dubbing Peter Fuller's colt even before the painful debacle that was Saturday's Preakness Stakes. A half century of Triple Crown racing without a dis-qualification, and the Dancer in his Triple Crown career is now two-for-two, victim twice of bizarre circumstances largely beyond anyone's control...
...make sure that the breathing spell for the North does not become a dis aster for the South, U.S. pilots are relentlessly attacking the Communist convoys. Last week, in fact, they flew the largest number of sorties against the North so far this year...
...than managerial personnel at all age levels. In fact, the incidence of heart ailments decreased on each succeeding higher rung of the executive ladder. Supported by funds from the National Heart Institute, the study also showed that the most rapidly promoted men suffered no more - and usually less - heart dis ease than employees who remained at lower levels. Managers transferred from one Bell System company to another-considered prime stress targets because of the domestic and professional adjustments involved in the move - exhibited no more coronary troubles than those who had never been transferred...