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Along Chicago's West Side, gangs of black teenagers surged out of schoolyards on the anniversary eve to attack cars, loot stores and hurl bricks at policemen. It looked like the prelude to a repetition of last April's anarchy. But Mayor Richard Daley moved swiftly, and, at his behest, Governor Richard Ogilvie had 5,000 National Guardsmen in the Chicago area by midafternoon. By nightfall, as Jeeps loaded with armed guardsmen crisscrossed the West Side, the city resembled a ghost town. Altogether, 90 persons were hurt, most of them only slightly, and 249 arrested...
Shopkeepers estimate that half of the thieves are teenagers. They often raid stores in gangs of ten or more: one kid grabs the loot, and it is then swiftly passed from one to another until the store detectives cannot tell, as one put it, "What's what or who's who." Some San Francisco store owners, particularly those in the immediate vicinity of high schools, have become so intimidated by the kids that they close their doors during lunch and when students are going to or from school...
This dreadful film is in the same genre as Topkapi and Rififi, but the resemblance stops there. The first half is a how-to-do-it set piece on the art of robbing a football stadium and getting away with the loot. The second half involves the problem, artificially created, of how to split that loot. As leader of the gang, Brown is allowed to take the take home to his former wife (Diahann Carroll). Enter James Whitmore, Diahann's evil landlord. He suspects what's up, but he also knows what he wants: Diahann. "Please," he pleads...
Still, TV has shown some of America's greatest cities under siege. It has shown Negroes carrying out loot from burned-out stores, sometimes while policemen and troops looked the other way. This sight, perhaps more than any other, contributes to the belief that Negroes are basically indolent and immoral, that law enforcement in the U.S. has broken down, that the black man is getting preferential treatment. That conclusion is directly contrary to the hallowed Anglo-Saxon tradition of property rights. The fact that mass arrests are not always feasible in chaotic conditions is ignored. The fact that indiscriminate...
...become the first swimmer to win three gold medals in individual events in one Olympics, U.S. aquanauts are expected to win 23 out of 29 races and collect as many as 55 out of 87 medals-gold, silver and bronze. They may need an armored car to get their loot back across the border...