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...telephone SOS 99-99) in 1961 with two motorcycles and two trucks. Today, they operate 100 trucks, all radio-equipped, that are manned by a versatile crew of not only plumbers but carpenters, locksmiths, electricians, and appliance handymen-each with a trade-school diploma. Working on a 24-hour-a-day schedule, SOS answers 100,000 calls a year...
...police arrested 17 Negroes during a disturbance outside a nightclub. A crowd of 300 accused the officers of brutality and attacked them with bottles and rocks. Last week 23 persons, 18 Negroes and five whites, including a 46-year-old white lawyer's wife, began a 24-hour-a-day sit-in at city hall, ostensibly to protest the fact that the cops had not been transferred to another area pending an investigation. After four days, police hauled the demonstrators off to jail. That night two youths
...only American in a region bristling with Viet Cong. In a short time, Grainger had begun to succeed in helping develop agricultural facilities, urban electrification, schools and health centers. "By the end of the summer," he wrote his mother and sister last May, "I hope to have 24-hour-a-day [electric] power. This will be an accomplishment for me. Tuy Hoa is the capital of the province and, therefore, must be the showplace. We can show the people in the villages and hamlets what the government can do and will do for them. It is slow...
...hour-a-day, 365-day-a-year alert against surprise attack, the U.S. depends on a foolproof communications system. To make sure that communications work even in the event of a massive missile attack that could destroy most of the vital command centers of U.S. defense, the Strategic Air Command maintains an emergency headquarters command and communications staff headed by a general in a jet airplane five miles in the sky. That system was initiated four years ago last week and-figuratively speaking-the plane has been circling aloft for more than 35,000 hours...
...fanfare in 1958, was intended to bring quick success in 1) building a pure Communist state, and 2) making China over into a first-class world power. Instead, the Leap's frenzied mobilization of peasants into communes, the setting up of backyard blast furnaces, and the 24-hour-a-day speedup...