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...aggressive, ubiquitous and expensive (around $1 per minute). In the past five years, three huge new hotels, catering mostly to out-of-town conventioneers, have deluged the midtown area with lonely, well-to-do customers. Obeying the laws of supply and demand, girls from Harlem, Queens and states halfway across the country have flocked in to mulct the ever-growing clientele. Many of them are blonde-wigged Negroes sporting the furled umbrellas that seem to be badges of the trade...
Fifteen miles to the southwest, a Negro mob in Plainfield, N.J., surrounded a white policeman and stomped him to death. Trouble erupted in nearby Elizabeth, New Brunswick, Jersey City and Englewood. Halfway across the nation, gangs of young Negroes in Cairo, Ill., hurled fire bombs and sniped sporadically for two nights, until Illinois Governor Otto Kerner ordered in 50 National Guard troops. Six hundred guardsmen were mobilized in Minneapolis, whose Negro population is only 2%, after two nights of rock throwing and arson. Gangs in Des Moines and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, lobbed rocks and vitriol at Whitey. In West Fresno...
Congresses. Though the Russians themselves silently queue up for Lenin's tomb outside the Kremlin in a permanent line stretching halfway across Red Square, Intourist guides slip foreign tourists in near the front, and waiting time rarely exceeds 20 minutes. Due decorum is advised: one U.S. tourist was asked by the guards to take his hands out of his pockets to show respect...
...Denard's 6th Commandos, supported by Katanganese soldiers of the Congo army, moved into six towns, the most important being Bukavu and Kisangani. After several brief clashes with Mobutu's advancing regulars, the mercenaries last week commandeered 27 trucks and retreated toward the safety of interior Punia, halfway between Bukavu and Kisangani. Another mercenary, Major Jean Schramm, is in control there, and can help the rebels escape to Angola or Rhodesia...
...recent typical night-hunter run for the 1st Infantry Division, the lead chopper spotted a small group of Viet Cong on a heavily wooded hillside in Binh Dinh province, halfway down the coast of South Viet Nam. Before the V.C. could flee, it unleashed a stream of yellow and red tracer shells into their midst. A moment later, the second chopper, zeroing in on the tracers, sent a deadly volley of rockets thundering into the same spot...