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JAMES HOPE Springfield Gardens...
...Chicago-where civil rights groups have long campaigned against Mayor Richard Daley and School Superintendent Benjamin Willis-was quiet. But Governor Otto Kerner, at the request of Chicago police, ordered 2,000 Illinois National Guardsmen into the city to stand by in armories in case of further trouble. Then Springfield. Violence then leapfrogged east to the rifle manufacturing city of Springfield, Mass. Trouble had been brewing since last month, when police arrested 17 Negroes during a disturbance outside a nightclub. A crowd of 300 accused the officers of brutality and attacked them with bottles and rocks. Last week 23 persons...
...took the beating he had expected, and he was a graceful loser. In his concession speech to weeping admirers in Springfield, Ill., he said in a somewhat halting way: "Someone asked me, as I came in, how I felt, and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell-Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who had stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh...
...city was plaguing a widespread area of the Northeast U.S. and parts of Canada. Anglers on New Brunswick's Kedgwick and Restigouche rivers went home salmonless because the rivers were so low that the fish could not make it upstream to spawn. At the Quabbin Reservoir, near Springfield, Mass., the water level dropped so far that a long-submerged race track came into view like a relic of some lost Atlantis. In Maine the 30 million-lb. blueberry crop was nearing its critical growth period in need of moisture. And the city of Concord, N.H., was draining water from...
After spending four months trying to break into journalism in Manhattan, Wolfe landed a $55-a-week reporter's job on the Springfield (Mass.) Union, moved on to the Washington Post, then went to work for the Trib...