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Gripping heavy wooden clubs to fend off water moccasins and rattlesnakes, 400 sailors sludged through eastern Mississippi swampland last week, poking and peering. From 14-ft. aluminum skiffs, equipped with walkie-talkies, search teams dipped grappling hooks into the sluggish, brown Pearl River. State highway patrolmen went back to knocking on doors, searching for a clue they might have missed. For the fourth time President Johnson dispatched new contingents of FBI agents, who set about quizzing every employee at the two principal manufacturing plants in nearby Philadelphia, Miss. But still there was no trace of the three young civil rights...
...going to have law and order in our subways." He announced that 200 Transit Authority policemen would go on daily overtime duty in subways, another 500 regular New York cops would do the same on the streets above, and all of the city's 20,000 patrolmen-most of whom travel to and from work on subways-would commute armed and in uniform from...
...gave the disturbance time to swell to major proportions. By midnight 2,500 students filled the Square. After the crowd had crippled three trolley cars by disconnecting their power lines, the police moved in with tear gas, a tactic not to be repeated for over twenty years. But the patrolmen's efforts failed. About 1500 students fought their way up to Radcliffe, where they milled about yelling and hooting for most of the night...
...Pala plan's first fortnight, Rome was wondering whether it could possibly last. Other cities, including New York, have tried much the same measures, but they have usually foundered on the failure of the local patrolmen to enforce them (a $10 bill in the right hands from time to time works wonders in any town, in any country). Could the Roman cops-so much more noted for their ballet technique of directing traffic than for their enforcement of law-maintain the zeal that has them handing out more than 5,000 tickets a day? And how long would...
Dean Watson said yesterday in a letter to the Leverett House Committee that he had arranged with the MDC for additional patrolmen and plainclothesmen in the area at night, and for better illumination of the bridge. He also said that the University police had assigned a man to patrol the bridge...