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...early dusk at Trung Lap, U.S. Captain Edward Nidever, a West Pointer, was bent over a chess game. Comfortably dressed against the heat in shorts and sneakers, Nidever was about to move a pawn when the humid silence was broken by an outburst of rifle fire. "The Civil Guard's catching hell again," said Nidever as he slung an ammunition belt across a bare shoulder, grabbed a carbine and headed for the door...
Much of the violence was clearly a summer's-end, preschool spree. And in Manhattan-where nine policemen were hurt attempting to control the crowd that turned out for an annual West Indies Day parade in Harlem-the nerve-shreddingly humid heat was mostly to blame for trouble. But not all the rebellion could be explained away by back-to-books excesses or hot weather. The U.S. juvenile delinquency rate was up 6% last year over 1959, has more than doubled over the last twelve years. In Houston, where there has been little juvenile delinquency in recent years, police...
...humid evening, a night for frayed nerves and flaring tempers. Answering a call to Manhattan's Lower East Side, where a man had been reported roaming the streets with a rifle, a pair of New York cops last week began questioning a teen-age tough-and found themselves threatened by riot. A hostile crowd of some 200 persons milled around, a shower of bricks and other debris hurtled down from tenement rooftops. One brick, aimed at the policemen, struck and killed a bystander, Factory Worker Ramon Rojas...
...such rugs"). It was also outfitted with an artless array of Soviet propaganda, from pictures of Spacemen Gagarin and Titov to such slogans as "Soviet Union takes the lead in banning nuclear weapons," and "Hiroshima must not be repeated." Despite all this, the most popular spot in the hot, humid hall was a booth selling Coca Cola...
...humid midsummer night in Washington. The city slept as best it could. On Capitol Hill, the great dome glowed above an empty plaza. But in its nearly empty chamber, the U.S. Senate was still in session-of a sort. Rhode Island's Democratic Senator Claiborne Pell, acting as presiding officer, nodded in the chair; Democratic Whip Hubert Humphrey and Republican Whip Tom Kuchel slumped at their desks, staring trancelike at nothing. And from his back-row desk, Wisconsin's Democratic Senator William Proxmire talked and talked and talked, pausing only to sip butterscotch-flavored Metrecal...