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...communities arrived, the mob had swelled to 1,000 and the riot was in full swing. Negroes swarmed into a main street, smashing windows and headlights of passing cars. A white man, Clarence Stermer, 59, suffered a heart attack when his car was bombarded with rocks. For four hours lawmen used tear gas and high-pressure fire hoses to sweep back the mob. Next night Molotov cocktails arced out of the darkness onto the roof of La-Pota's store, setting it afire-and the riot erupted again. This time it ran for 31 hours. In all, 50 people...
...newsworthy brand of law practice, trial work, is also for the most part closed to women, with such notable exceptions as the gaudy Gladys Towles Root, currently appearing (in four-foot cartwheel hats and purple dresses) for the defense in the Sinatra kidnaping case. To most men-laymen and lawmen alike-women are physically unfitted for the grueling ordeals of trial work, and emotionally "too kind and forgiving." In reaction to male prejudice, until fairly recently many women attorneys dressed mannishly, cussed like troopers-and thereby forfeited one of their most potent weapons: feminine intuition and charm...
...last Dec. 8, young Sinatra said he had been taken from his Lake Tahoe motel room "at gunpoint" but had then stretched out quietly- without being bound or gagged-in the back seat of the kidnapers' car. Later, he continued, when the car approached a roadblock full of lawmen, he suggested to his kidnapers that they might fool the cops by telling them that "we've been to a party and I've had too much to drink...
When Hoodlum Joe Valachi appeared before Arkansas Senator John McClellan's Permanent Investigations Subcommittee last week, he rasped out a 31-hour rhapsody of names, crimes and Cosa Nostra syndicate secrets. Valachi's song held nothing new for U.S. lawmen: he had been holding private recitals for them for more than a year. But his testimony might provide some ideas for show biz scriptwriters...
...Negroes. A voice growled menacingly: "Let's free him." But demonstration leaders quickly broke into the circle and managed to save the policemen. The riot ebbed-and then, an hour later, exploded again. In Kelly Ingram Park, hundreds of Negroes began lobbing bricks and bottles at the lawmen. A deputy sheriff fell to the pavement, shouting "Those black apes!" For two hours, the battle raged, but slowly, inexorably, in trucks and cars, the police closed...