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...neighborhood newspaper called Wisdom's Child, published on Manhattan's Upper West Side, begins by noting that life there "can be a delightful thing." That said, the editors offer a cutout page of emergency telephone numbers-for firemen, police, suicide prevention, addict assistance, a 24-hour locksmith, air pollution, a poison-control center and dial-a-prayer. The recorded prayer: "Oh Lord, I am very aware that I live in a world of muggers and purse snatchers. I earnestly pray for help to keep my perspective . . . and even if I am a victim of a crime, that...
While a secretary sprayed the room with a lemon-scented aerosol bomb, police and firemen ejected the intruders. Outside the palace, a Liège farmer, who felt that the ministers had not been sufficiently cowed, lamented: "My only regret is that we didn't bring along a bull...
There were no serious injuries, although a few firemen were cut while fighting the fire. The cause of the fire was still undetermined when it was put out, although most of the speculation centered around the possibility of an electrical fire. Several firemen cited the fact that lights had been left on in the building and that the fire seemed to have started in the walls as possible evidence for an electrical failure which might have started the fire...
Ohio Governor James Rhodes took over the handling of the Kent situation personally on Sunday, the day before the murders. The night before, students had burned the ROTC building on campus, slashing hoses when firemen came to put out the fire. Rhodes went to great lengths to demonstrate that he was hopping mad. He told a press conference that he had ordered the Guard to break up all assemblies on the campus, regardless of whether or not they were violent...
...beyond New York's viability, the strike raised an increasingly troublesome question: How does government prevent walkouts by essential public employees? The cops were not kept on the job by New York State's antistrike Taylor Law; nor have similar statutes elsewhere kept firemen, nurses and sanitation men from walkouts in the past. University of Pennsylvania Professor George W. Taylor is not entirely happy with the New York law that bears his name. But he has found no answer. "We are still searching," he says. "What we need is some social inventiveness...