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...wake, the city of 70,000 lay divided by fear and hatred. Rumors circulated through the ghetto that five of the dead had been shot repeatedly and at close range by police using private weapons to avoid identification. Police Chief Broadus Bequest's refusal to meet next day with either black leaders or members of the press to refute the charges against the police only added to the speculation and rumor. At week's end a dusk-to-dawn curfew was still in effect, and 1,000 National Guardsmen, their nameplates covered with tape, patrolled the ghetto area...
...Italy, despite a certain nostalgia for the days of Benito Mussolini (TIME, May 4), few would exchange the dishevelment of parliamentary democracy for the discipline of the Fascist era. Instead of advocating repressive new laws during Italy's current period of unrest, Premier Mariano Rumor's government is preparing an amnesty bill that will permit the dropping of charges against hundreds of demonstrators arrested in recent months. "We accept controversy," said Rumor, "but we will not permit democracy itself to be attacked...
...political criticisms and rumors have abounded recently, and Peterson has already traced several back to the candidates' folders for review. He urged anyone with instances of political discrimination to bring them to his attention. "We are willing to track this kind of rumor," he said...
...rumor Peterson tracked down concerned four candidates from a Philadelphia high school. James Q. Wilson, professor of Government, heard from a group of Dunster students that in this school three radical students had been rejected and one conservative admitted who was less qualified than any of the other three...
...years rumor has had it that all Universal Pictures films are made by a giant computer. If so. The Forbin Project is the machine's apologia pro vita sua, a razzle-dazzle science fiction yarn about a computer takeover. It was made -at least according to the screen credits -by humans, but the film's rigorous plotting, its smooth suspense and meticulously calculated style seem strictly and triumphantly machine-made...