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...conflagration was sparked by a seemingly minor incident in the northwestern city of Bydgoszcz. The trouble started on March 19, when some 200 policemen forcibly evicted Solidarity members from a provincial assembly hall for no apparent reason. According to the union, 26 of its members were beaten during the incident; three were hospitalized, including Jan Rulewski, leader of the local Solidarity chapter...
Ironically, there seems to be less alarm about crime in high-risk black neighborhoods than in white areas where crime is lower. Contends Northwestern University Associate Professor Wesley Skogan: "Our studies show an inverse relationship between fear and levels of crime. People who live in the areas of least crime are often the most fearful...
...westward movement of the American frontier in such scholarly but vivid books as Westward Expansion: A History of the American Frontier (1949) and this year's Land of Savagery, Land of Promise; of a heart attack; in San Marino, Calif. Billington taught from 1944 to 1963 at Northwestern University, where he showed generations of undergraduates the way West in a course known as Cowboys and Indians...
...Harvard women's tennis team lost its first match of the spring season, 7-2, against Northwestern yesterday afternoon...
...Sunday's match in any way approaches the quality of play that the Crimson displayed this fall, then Northwestern may not take home fond memories of its trip East...