Word: district
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...Washington, himself a Negro, approved a 30% increase in police patrols. He also asked Congress to make threats against businessmen a felony in Washington, and got swift approval. Congress took another action last week that may have an even longer-range impact: it increased the starting salary for the District's 3,100-man police force (23% black) from $6,700 to $8,000 as of July 1. Though Washington already has more police per 1,000 people than any other city in the U.S., local officials hope that the pay raise will help build an even bigger force...
...Boston trial is expected to drag on for several weeks, despite 85-year-old Judge Francis J. W. Ford's warnings to "get on with it." In another draft-related case, a Baltimore district court last week sentenced two pacifists to six years in federal prison and a third to three years for pouring duck blood on draft-board records. One of those sentenced to a six-year stretch was the Rev. Philip F. Berrigan, 44, a Roman Catholic priest...
...authority and refused to attend meetings. The committee's appointment of four principals, who were chosen without regard to civil service rankings, was struck down by the state Supreme Court. By late spring, 70 teachers and 18 assistant principals, all white, had applied for transfers out of the district...
...state health department bacteriologist in Juneau, Alaska, Williams, 57, said he had come to San Francisco on business. The evening before, to kill some time, he decided to see Gone With The Wind. When he left the theater in the city's tough Tenderloin district, he was jumped by two young muggers who beat him unconscious. Coming to, he hailed a cab to his motel. Next day, when the headache did not go away, he went to see Fournier...
...District I tournament is a double elimination contest. This means that the four teams will play among themselves until three of them have lost twice. The survivor will go on to the National championships in Omaha, Nebraska...