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...thick of a riot, cool in the midst of frenzy, the department's skillful crowd-control experts were quick to head off trouble before it started. Time and again the Berkeley cops have been called the most enlightened police force in the nation. Says no less a home-town citizen than California Supreme Court Chief Justice Rodger Traynor: "They know their town well; they know their townspeople well. I respect them as officers of the law in the largest sense...
...savings were said to have jumped in eight years from a mere $16,983 to $222,153 (his wife had done well in Wall Street, explained Ivy). The defendants, the prosecution claimed, had encouraged patients to visit Chicago, then supplied them with Krebiozen to take to their home-town doctors-which was illegal in any case where the patient crossed a state line...
With the furniture still being moved in, however, Torontonians were in no mood to cast too fine an eye on their new joy and pride. A poll indicated that nine out of ten were enthusiastic. Typical was the response of one home-town girl back from Italy: "Just looking at that building makes me proud." And as for incumbent Mayor Philip Givens, he could barely contain his pride. "It's unusual, unique, daring, bold," he declared. "It typifies the spirit of Toronto. It's a smasheroo...
Married. Orville Enoch Hodge, 60, former Illinois state auditor and gubernatorial hopeful who in 1956 went to jail for embezzling $1,450,000 in public funds, was paroled in 1963 to make a new life as an Oldsmobile salesman; and Viola Coombs, 61, a home-town secretary; both for the second time; in Granite City...
...going to fail, one should have been sent home the first week, and seven of them would have made it without us. But for 32, we've been a godsend." Yet most of the students still must survive a year or more of high school back in their home environment, where this summer's glow can easily fade. "When you aspire, like they say," wonders one Negro boy, "don't you get slapped down that much easier?" Aware of this problem, many project leaders have assigned home-town counselors to keep in touch with the kids...