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...case Senate President Maurice A. Donahue (D-Holyoke) issued the usual attacks against Volpe and Buckley, they were promptly ignored by everyone but Volpe. The Governor over-reacted and got Buckley to resign. Massachusetts Democrats, who have long feared Buckley's political prowess, are delighted. The resignation was something they never expected...
Yale, which had proved its prowess in the East with a 62-33 win over undefeated Princeton last week and has its eye on national honors in the upcoming weeks, was not out to embarrass the Crimson. But Harvard's 35 points--more than Dartmouth. Army, or Princeton could score against Yale--still reflect a vast improvement over the last few meets by the Crimson squad...
...General U Thant are scheduled to be there at the same time late this month. Goldberg plans to visit Rangoon during a tour of a dozen European and Asian nations, and while he insists that his trip is not "a peace mission," few who are familiar with his negotiating prowess would be surprised if he sought to contact North Vietnamese diplomats en route...
...well behaved. Though a delegation arrived with petitions protesting Chinese polemics, they went away after the Chinese ripped their petitions to shreds. Soviet slogans were tidily lettered and said nothing much more inflammatory than "Shame on the clique of Mao Tse-tung." In the battle, Russia showed superior electronic prowess. When the Chinese inside the Moscow embassy began bleating anti-Soviet polemics over their low-decibel bullhorns, the Russians wheeled up two sound trucks and drowned the Chinese...
Reddin's task is complicated by the vastness of Los Angeles, a manpower shortage and his department's consequent impersonality. For all its prowess in chasing the Mafia to Las Vegas, the L.A. department is seriously undermanned. Even at a minimum $7,692 a year (near tops in the U.S.), it cannot lure enough recruits. New York City has nearly three times as many people as Los Angeles, more than five times as many police. In Los Angeles, only 5,035 men cover 458 sq. mi.-roughly ten cops per square mile, v. 39 in the average...