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...Caulker of Sierra Leone, who in 1961 was elected paramount chief of the Shenge district (pop. 25,000). A Junoesque woman who stands 6 ft. 1 in., Madame Honoria enjoys such baubles as a white Mercedes, an open palanquin in which she is carried by her subjects, a golden mace presented to her chieftaincy by Queen Victoria, and an elaborate bathroom in which everything from bidet to bath salts is pink. She is accompanied on her official rounds by an official elephant-horn player, who blows great blasts to announce her arrival and departure. She conducts her tribal court with...
...policeman allegedly started to push into the crowded poolroom but was shoved back. More cops arrived. Suddenly they sprayed Gipson and two bystanders, Adolph Banks, 27, a welder, and James Henley, an insurance salesman, with Mace. All three were arrested...
After a decade of assorted riots, the nation's 400,000 policemen are armed with more lethal weapons than some of history's major wars required plus Mace and Pepper Fog, undercover agents, computers and helicopters. The best cops have also learned new techniques for cooling crowds instead of using those weapons. Yet street crime?the worst problem?is so rampant that police are fast becoming the nation's most frustrated minority. In fact, roughly half of all serious crimes are never reported, often because numbed victims expect no help from overburdened police. Between 70% and 80% of police effort...
...better anyway. At the time I left Los Angeles, it already seemed too late for a phased withdrawal. The smog was like Mace; but then the air, apart from radioisotopes, must be better anywhere else now, even in a coal mine. A major earthquake was predicted, too, not merely by seismologists but by the religious protection rackets, which were transferring east to pray out the millennium and to await the second option of chiliasm there . . . At about that time, as well, the American Legion opened its campaign against my San Diego neighbor Professor Marcuse, an action I read...
...Viet Nam War, pollution and what they consider to be industrial irresponsibility-have disrupted the annual meetings of at least nine major companies. Angry epithets have converted some stockholder gatherings into social battlegrounds. To disperse unruly demonstrators, helmeted police have used tear gas, and company guards have sprayed disabling Mace. Last week, the confrontations, at four corporate meetings, reached an acrimonious crescendo...