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...sinister drama, the Mafia's bloodletting accounts for only an insignificant fraction of the killings that occur every year in the U.S. The rising toll sometimes seems to validate H. Rap Brown's mordant dictum: "Violence is as American as cherry pie." In 1970 there were 16,000 criminal homicides in the nation-one every 33 minutes. With the carnage mounting-up 8% from the previous year and 76% over the decade-the U.S. is maintaining its long-held, unhappy distinction of leading advanced Western nations in the rate at which its citizens destroy one another. Philadelphia...
While the death toll of Americans has subsided, the senseless slaughter of Indochinese continues. In its stubborn insistence in maintaining a strongly anti-communist government in Saigon, the Nixon Administration has leveled villages, wiped out entire crops and defoliated the Vietnamese countryside...
...blood red cars of Alfa-Romeo, they provided more than a diverting show. Bouncing around the bumpy track's 5.2-mile course, with its twelve S's, hair-raising hairpin and assorted other curves, only 27 of the entries managed to finish. Mechanical mishaps took the biggest toll. Peter Revson, driving one of the four Alfa-Romeo Spyders, was eliminated for flourishing a finger obscenely at a track official who had chastised him for illegally passing another car under a yellow caution flag...
...narrow thoroughfare after police received a series of telephoned warnings that a bomb was due to go off in a nearby street. Suddenly 100 Ibs. of gelignite exploded-not where it had been said to be, but in a car parked amid the fleeing shoppers. In the heaviest daylight toll to date, six were killed and 146 injured. Two days later, another bomb exploded, near the Great Victoria Street Railway Station, wrecking passenger cars, shattering every window in one entire side of the nearby Europa hotel, Belfast's newest, and injuring...
...establish immigration health standards that are still in use today. Later, as chief quarantine officer and director of health in the Philippines, he exercised nearly dictatorial powers for a dozen years in the fight against bubonic plague, cholera, smallpox, beriberi and malaria. He was credited with reducing the death toll in the islands by 100,000 a year. As an emissary of the Rockefeller Foundation, he traveled to disease-ridden corners of the world, campaigning for modern sanitation and good diet. His 1936 memoirs. An American Doctor's Odyssey, became an international bestseller that vied with Gone With...