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Though police in quieter cities may claim boredom as the cause of their naps, New York's Finest have some of their own reasons. "It's the moonlighters who are so beat by duty time that they have to sleep," says a Brooklyn officer. Another reason: all regular policemen are assigned to a different one of three daily shifts each week, thereby rotating undesirable night duty. This means that a man who goes to work at 8 a.m. one week reports at 4 p.m. the next and at midnight on the third. As any doctor can testify...
...millions of voters who are understandably and legitimately dismayed by random crime, burning ghettos, disrupted universities and violent demonstrations in downtown streets, law and order is a rallying cry that evokes quieter days. To some, it is also a shorthand message promising repression of the black community. To the Negro, already the most frequent victim of violence, it is a bleak warning that worse times may be coming...
...crowds are much different from San Francisco. The people are quieter; and there are a lot of different kinds of people at the show. The bands have many different sounds, too. In San Francisco there was mostly one sound, the San Francisco sound...
This is the age of revolution, in word even more than in deed. Scarcely a publication can be picked up that does not issue a call for revolution in something: art or education, politics or sex, work or play. Yet amid the now commonplace advocacy of upheaval are quieter appeals to reason that suggest revolution is not all it is reputed to be, that continuity may be preferable to crisis, that peaceful accommodation with one's fellow man may prove to be more fruitful than clobbering him-or even calling him names...
Next day was quieter, as stock prices edged up a bit more (2.71 points on the Dow-Jones industrials) and volume held high (14.52 million shares). On Wednesday, with the news that North Viet Nam was at least willing to talk, the trading avalanche roared to a 19.29 million-share crescendo. The ticker fell an unprecedented 47 minutes behind the action on the Big Board floor. Perspiring brokers cheered again and again as volume figures flashed across the magnified tapes projected along trading-room walls. The bellwether industrial average soared more than 13 points before profit-taking sales pulled...