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...Boston-the study found that four out of every five white policemen working in Negro neighborhoods have prejudiced attitudes toward Negroes. The report estimated that 45% of the white police (and, surprisingly, nearly 10% of the Negro police) showed near pathological hostility: "These scum aren't people". . ."We oughta gas these niggers-they're ruining the country." Though the survey found that police are rarely "unprofessional" in their contacts with Negroes, the conclusion was inescapable that this antipathy is felt by ghetto dwellers and itself contributes to riots...
...eight girls, shuffling from soldier to soldier. The price of a "short time" varies with the demand from $2.50 to $5 and inevitably has produced grumbling. "General Kinnard ought to put his foot down," complained one cavalryman last week. "Five bucks is too high. He oughta make three bucks the standard price." The plaint is, of course, misdirected. An Khe Plaza is a creation of the Vietnamese and run by the Vietnamese, albeit for Americans...
...P.T.A. and all of the mothers say he oughta look like the others . . Why won't they try to understand him, Why won't you let him be what he wants...
Surely, also, Audrey is provided with ample opportunities for her patented doe-eyed scream. Four graphic corpses, I am told, put in an appearance. The first (Audrey's hubby) is tossed battered from a speeding train. The second (a mountainous lummox with a hook where his right hand oughta be) we discover face up and fish lipped in an overflowing bathtub. Number three (a balding dry-goodsman from the Bronx or someplace) gets his throat most ostentatiously slashed in an early-morning elevator. The last is an evil-tempered Texan named, curiously enough, "Tex." Audrey finds him bound head...
...believe Joshua did pray to God and the sun stood still " On her Israeli trip she became frightened while traveling over the twisting roads of the rugged Judean Hills, until a "Spirit" reprimanded her: "If Joseph could bring Mary over these rough mountains on a donkey, you oughta be ashamed of yourself, Mahalia." In fact, the whole trip was like a homecoming. "The very first gospel singers," says Mahalia Jackson were them angels who sang 'Peace on earth, good will...