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Race and Rage. The subcommittee, chaired by Connecticut's Thomas Dodd, says that Chicago's teachers were attacked 1,065 times last year-an eight-fold rise in five years. During the same period, student assaults increased by 500% in the Philadelphia school system, which recorded 116 incidents last year. New York City reported 180. In five months, San Francisco's elementary-school students attacked their teachers 83 times...
...Dodd committee feels that a prime factor in school violence these days is racial desegregation. For one thing, it tends to bring the volatility of some ghetto students into the more decorous white community. To compound the difficulties, many school administrators underplay violence out of fear that it will reflect on their ability to maintain control. In Washington, D.C., for example, one elderly woman teacher was kicked in the shins so severely that several operations were required to remove blood clots in her legs. Yet instead of upholding her, the principal labeled her a "troublemaker." Students, realizing that punishment...
NOTORIOUS LADIES OF THE FRONTIER by Harry Sinclair Drago. 270 pages. Dodd, Mlead. $6. What drove the West wild was ladies named Millie Hipps, Mattie Silks, Mammy Pleasant, Madame Moustache, Lurline Monte Verdi and Silver Dollar. Carefully chronicled and not a cuss word throughout...
...rooted in the public mood, muckraking is a cyclic form of journalism. If a society is troubled, it suspects that something is wrong with its system or its leaders; a free press responds by finding out what that something is. Hence the recent exposes of the Mafia, Senator Dodd, slaughterhouses, Abe Fortas, American automobiles, poverty funds misuse, hot dogs, drug companies, Pentagon spending, Senator Long, Medicare profiteering, Congressman Gallagher. And last week, the charge in Look magazine that Joseph L. Alioto, the dynamic and popular mayor of San Francisco, is involved with the Mafia...
...punch in columns on such figures as the "Five Percenters" of the Truman Administration, the "Kickback Congressmen" of the late '40s and early '50s, Senator Joseph McCarthy, FCC Commissioner Richard Mack and Congressman Adam Clayton Powell. It was also Anderson who persuaded office workers for Senator Thomas Dodd to turn over the Connecticut Democrat's incriminating files. Of the more than 100 Pearson-Anderson columns devoted to the Dodd affair, all but two were written by the junior partner...