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Pinpointed especially were the most threatened of New York's 34,000 acres of park, 725 playgrounds, 17 swimming pools and 18 miles of sandy, sunny beach as well as 14 "high hazard" slum areas, where more than 100 organized gangs prowl the streets. To these potential trouble points went 700 extra police in uniform or plainclothes, on foot or in radio cruisers, trained and ready to study the faces of an uncertain generation and to move in hard and fast on its rebels...
...fully effective. While they do put more planes under ground control, they also increase the strain on the already overworked CAA with its outmoded system. And the big jets will only increase the pressure. Said CAAdministrator James T. Pyle: "The public must realize that we cannot eliminate the collision hazard until we fully implement our Federal airways plan, and this is in the order of four years or more. We're not ready because people didn't start five or ten years ago to get ready...
...enterprising Philadelphia small fry, the strike was a bonanza of sorts. They bought up piles of the papers at 5? a copy in the downtown offices, hawked them in the suburbs for as much as 15? each. But some ran into a hazard undreamed of in their teen-age philosophy. Striking Teamsters intercepted them, took their papers and dumped the bundles into the murky waters of the Schuylkill River...
Mathematics was at that time studied all four years, culminating in differential calculus. Chemistry was studied in a somewhat hap-hazard manner for a small part of the senior year, while French and Spanish were regarded by students as recreations rather than studies...
...greatest social hazard for a Horace Mann student is being different. Clothes are particularly conformist and fadish. To school the girls wear skirts and blouses or sweaters, and whatever type of shoes is the rage that year. Boys wear sport shirts or sweaters and "drapes"--slightly tapered, flannel slacks. Suit jackets and ties are never seen during school hours...