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...where the Los Angeles riot erupted: "Whitey will have to help us now." Last week Whitey was doing just that. In Washington, President Johnson dispatched to Los Angeles a "task force," headed by Deputy Attorney General Ramsey Clark, to inaugurate a crash program of federal help for the 45-sq.-mi., riot-torn area...
...B.A.s, 288 with two-year college certificates, 375 with police academy diplomas; more than 2,000 policemen are taking outside courses. Though it has the highest pay rates of any police force in the U.S., the department is seriously undermanned, has only 5,018 men to cover 458.2 sq. mi.−ten cops per sq. mi. v. 39 in the average U.S. community. Nonetheless, Parker has racked up an admirable record of arrests (of 268,567 offenses in 1964, his men apprehended 196,683 suspects) and has chased the Mafia all the way to Las Vegas...
...first revolution, as Gemini 5 came within range of the Guaymas tracking station in Mexico, Astronaut Pete Conrad made a calm, almost routine report. The pressure, he said, was dropping in the fuel cells' oxygen supply. The gauge that normally should have read 800 to 900 Ibs. per sq. in. was dropping fast. Since the fuel cells were the main source of power for the spacecraft's communications, computer and environment control system, they were, in effect, the heart of the Gemini mission...
...compassionate man." And, speaking of national monuments, Johnson announced one of his own. The University of Texas will build a library in Austin to house his papers, in addition will establish a Lyndon Baines Johnson Institute of Public Serv ice. The library will sprawl over at least 150,000 sq. ft., and thus will be by far the biggest presidential library of them...
Last April the Elephant Valley was deep, dark Viet Cong country. Paths and paddies were deserted by day; the rifles of Red snipers dominated the night. When Clement's battalion of marines moved in, they found the 20,000 inhabitants of the 100-sq.-mi. region sullen and closemouthed. Trade was at a standstill, bridges across the wild mountain streams had been blown, and no villager felt safe from Viet Cong terror. By applying intelligent compassion and tough soldiering, Clement has since converted most of the Elephant Valley from numbness to normality. "Someone has to win this war," says...