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...Newark, July 1967. Violence exploded when blacks heard and believed a false rumor that the police had killed a black taxi driver. As the rioting spread, exaggerated reports of black snipers prompted the intervention of the National Guard. In six days of rioting, 26 were killed, 1,500 injured, and damage reached $30 million...
...America's cities when the rioting suddenly stopped. One reason was a series of reforms: more political power for blacks, police review boards, a variety of job programs. Another was the realization that ghetto blacks were the chief victims of ghetto violence-burned-out areas of Detroit and Newark are still in ruins today. But as Miami demonstrated, the elements that created the history of ghetto rioting still exist...
...country's penal institutions add up to a national disgrace. Riotous prison disorders have become so common that it was only second-rate news last March when a guard was wounded and several others were taken hostage during a mutiny of 100 or so inmates in a Newark, N.J., jail. In fact, the event seemed trivial only because it came so soon after the epic mayhem that took 33 lives in February at the New Mexico State Penitentiary near Santa Fe. That was a hard act to follow. But such is the condition of prisons, overcrowded and festering everywhere...
Greenhouse, 64, whose father was a Newark real estate broker, was nine when he heard a cello solo in the William Tell Overture and recognized "the sound that I wanted for the rest of my life." After scholarship studies at Juilliard, he spent two years with Pablo Casals in Europe. In 1954, he got together with Pressler and Daniel Guilet, concertmaster of the Symphony of the Air, for a projected recording of Mozart trios. The recording fell through, but the three decided to try their luck on the concert circuit...
Although Countryman did not officially win any events, he finished second behind Bobby Hackett in the 1000-yd. freestyle and narrowly trailed Columbia's Pete Scaturro in the 100 free. Two events after the 100, the Yardling from Newark, Del., stormed from behind to capture the 500-yd. freestyle, but was not credited with a victory because he was entered in the event as an exhibition contestant. Countryman's times in the 1000 and the 500 (9:29 and 4:37) earned him the third and fourth positions, respectively, on Harvard's all-time best performances list...