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...Angeles Municipal Court leaned forward as a young deputy city attorney summed up the state's case against a Negro woman charged with impeding a lawful arrest. "If Rena Frye had not interfered with the police officer when they were trying to arrest her son Marquette," Rayford Fountain said, "all we would have today would be a hoy with a slight scar on his forehead, a boy who had experienced a slight jab to his stomach, the effects of which he probably wouldn't remember by this time anyway...
Thus, though he had been ordered by the judge to confine his argument strictly to the facts of the arrest, Prosecutor Fountain, 28, insisted on adding that the fuse lighted by the Fryes turned into the five-day Watts riot that took 34 lives, cost millions in property damage, and "left a blight on our city's history that may take 50 to 100 years to erase." The prosecution contended that the patrolmen had not used excessive force on the Fryes. The defense argued that the officers' unjustifiably rough treatment of the brothers excused Mrs. Frye...
...Lang Syne and The Star-Spangled Banner, prim ladies in tweed suits feverishly uprooted all the chrysanthemums recently planted for a permanent park, stuffed them into their pocketbooks or pinned them onto their hats. Tipsy men wantonly ripped signs from buildings, kicked over trash baskets, waded in the Unisphere fountain, and shinned up the 20-ft. poles near the United Nations Plaza to capture the flags. One man completely gutted a statue of King Tut near the Egyptian Pavilion, another attacked a copy of an ancient vase outside the Greek Pavilion with a hammer, while hundreds of people watched...
Manhattan's new Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is also meant to be a showcase for the visual arts. One plaza is already filled with a computerized, illuminated fountain. To adorn another, the center's designers sought a "heroic" sculpture to break up the geometric, travertine-and glass-sided space between four buildings. They picked Britain's monumental Henry Moore (TIME cover, Sept. 21, 1959) to fill the tall order. Last week the largest Moore sculpture ever made arrived-a two-piece bronze whose shells are cast as thin as a paperback whodunit, yet still weigh...
Parishioners of Harlem's Fountain Springs Baptist Church invoked an older response to drought. Three times a day, their pastor instructed them, they were all to pray for rain. A less idealistic proposal was offered by Congressman William F. Ryan, a candidate for the Democratic mayoral nomination, who says Wagner should fire his Water Supply Commissioner for not fixing leaks in water mains. Just for emphasis, Ryan rolled up his pants and waded through one gusher in Central Park−he even drank some of the water−but the department said it was nature's water...