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...amount of ozone in the air. If the ozone count ever reaches 1.5 parts per million, public health officials fear disaster. The Los Angeles smog last week reached 0.90. California's Governor Goodwin Knight stood ready to declare the city a disaster area, and to proclaim martial...
Commenting on "Government Under Law in a Time of Crisis," he observed that putting the country under martial rule would be a disastrous way of reacting to atomic attack. "The maintenance of effective civil government is at the heart of the problem. Existing institutions of state have a tremendous going concern value; they should be strengthened and adapted to bear the weight of a possible attack...
...dispersed with tear gas a mob marching on the Greek embassy. In Izmir (the ancient Smyrna), Turkey's third largest city and NATO's southeastern headquarters, homes of Greek NATO officers were pillaged, and the Greek consulate was razed. Turkey's Prime Minister Adnan Menderes declared martial law in the three cities. The army moved in with tanks, imposed a curfew and, by dawn, had locked up more than 2,000 rioters. Throughout Turkey more than 4,000 stores and 78 churches lay gutted...
That tore it. Alabama's Governor Gordon Persons was forced by public opinion to declare martial law. The National Guard took over. Phenix City was as dead as any 100-year-old harlot ought to be. During the next six months, a grand jury voted 741 indictments, including three for the murder of Lawyer Patterson. The accused: Chief Deputy Sheriff Albert Fuller, convicted as the triggerman, was sentenced to life in prison; County Solicitor Arch Ferrell was acquitted of complicity; Alabama's Attorney General Silas Garrett, still in office at the time of the murder...
...type, play the piano, and do the breast stroke. When Wouk saw Shaw's Don Juan in Hell, he went home in despair: "You worm! You thug!" he raged at himself. "Get out of this business'" But next morning he was still in business, lifting the court-martial sequence out of The Caine. He wrote the whole play in "three horrible weeks...