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...After he succeeded Clarence Kelley, now head of the FBI, McNamara caught a lot of flak-including an unsuccessful lawsuit charging that he lacked the required experience for his job. McNamara wants to apply computer analysis to crime prevention and to eradicate Hollywood's image of cops. "The norm of police work is not violence," he says. "Most of a policeman's time is spent helping people...
There are also some brighter signs in education. Though reading scores in ghetto elementary schools remain 15 to 19 points below the national norm, test scores in New York City show that the decline has been at least temporarily arrested in the past year. Since 1967 the percentage of black ghetto males who drop out of high school has fallen from 24% to 18%. To its credit, the Nixon Administration since 1969 has more than doubled federal aid to black colleges, to $242 million this year...
...baseball, football, basketball, and hockey, roaring and cheering and baiting by the crowd is the norm--and it gives an edge to some players. In other sports, notably golf, pool, and tennis, a baby's cough can send competitors to a mental hospital. Cheering mistakes is rudeness at its gauchest, so much so that players read such behavior on the part of the audience as grounds for dismissal. Until the tremendous sports-money boom in the 60s, these distinctions went unchallenged. Golf, tennis and billiards, originally the sports of the privileged, were played in private enclaves where family mattered more...
Harvard's Jim Harrell pitched well for seven full innings, allowing a mere three hits and one run while striking out six. But after giving up three straight singles and a run in the eighth, coach Loyal Park called Norm Walsh in from the bullpen to pick up the save...
...Malley, meanwhile, was breezing through the Quaker order, allowing five hits and no runs through the sixth. But after issuing back-to-back walks to lead-off men Gary Ozga and Brandt in the seventh, the Crimson captain left the game in favor of relief specialist Norm Walsh...