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...some time or another most students will listen to the tales of the night patrolmen about the ingenious ways Harvard men devise to do away with themselves. It is a moot point whether there is any basis in fact behind these grisly episodes, but for entertainment on a late evening in exam period they are unmatched...
...Without relying on the usual crutch of a direct federal court order, the Memphis school board voluntarily admitted 13 Negro children to first grades in four of its public schools. Fifty patrolmen stood watchfully with billy clubs at the ready but found nothing to do as "instant integration" took place without advance publicity. Only 25 white families pulled their children out of school, and such statements as that of nine-year-old Jerry McGregor were rare enough to be newsworthy. Said he as he stayed home: "I'd rather be dumb than go to school with them...
...violence against law officers in major cities across the U.S. In New York, during the first seven months of 1961, more than 1,400 policemen were attacked, some 350 required medical attention, and the casualty rate was running one-third more than last summer. In one case, while two patrolmen probed the East River for the body of a boy who had drowned, a gang of teen-agers stood on a pier and threw rocks at them. Later, when Patrolman Stanley Butch jumped off the pier in an effort to save a drowning man, the kids stole his hat, shoes...
...Havana." By the time the big plane eased down on the runway, word had flashed across the U.S. that another U.S. airliner had been captured by Cubans. In El Paso, police, FBI agents and border patrolmen scrambled out of their beds and hurried to International Airport. From Denver, Continental Airlines President Robert Six issued an order: "Stall in any way, as long as possible." Two Air National Guard F-100 fighters whooshed out of Albuquerque's Kirtland Air Force Base, headed for El Paso...
...Women Aren't Ladies. Disagreements multiply in the areas of race and religion. The Miami Herald draws a careful distinction between white cops, who are always "policemen," and Negro cops, who are always "patrolmen." In the Memphis Commercial Appeal if a minister is white, he is "the Rev.," if Negro he is simply "Rev." The Denver Post is explicit on Roman Catholic ritual: "Mass is celebrated, said or read. High Mass is sung, never held. The Rosary is recited or said, never read." But the Miami News takes the easy way out: "Write it 'the mass (or rosary...