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Angry police called for 1,000 more men; cops with dogs began riding the subways. But of all incensed citizens, none acted faster than Juvenile Court Judge Juanita Kidd Stout, who warned that 27 active juvenile gangs "threaten to take over the city...
...prevent a repetition of last summer's Negro riots, Judge Stout immediately set herself a personal goal: the jailing of 1,000 delinquents, most of whom, police said, were Negroes. As a result, the judge has already been threatened with death three times. All the more remarkable is the fact that she herself is a Negro - the first elected Negro woman judge...
Lazy Homes. A stern moralist of 46, Judge Stout totally embodies her mother's motto: "Make yourself useful." Raised in Oklahoma, she whipped into third grade at the age of six, later taught school and then earned law degrees at Indiana University. In Philadelphia, she practiced criminal law, became an assistant D.A., and in 1959 overwhelmingly won election to a ten-year term on the county court. Barely 5 ft. tall, she peers from the bench atop three extra cushions and often keeps no-lunch court hours that make attendants mutter, "She's made of steel...
...away from people the drive to work. I deplore a system that regards the indiscriminate handing out of checks as its prime function, that subsidizes the lazy and immoral home with the tax payer's dollar." To stem Philadelphia's juvenile crime (up 27% last year), Judge Stout, who is married but childless, advocates taking children away from relief homes and raising them in public dormitories where they can be urged to buckle down to schoolwork...
...obsolete experimental nuclear rocket engine built at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory and used only for brief tests. It was set on an expendable railroad car on Nevada's desolate Jackass Flats and surrounded with a motley array of test objects-nuclear fuels, explosives, radiation detectors, air samplers. A stout steel net was hung to catch any flying debris, and the scientists retired to the control building two miles from the condemned power plant to wait for a northeast wind that would carry any radioactive fallout away from Nevada's inhabited areas...