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...Angelenos had nothing to worry about but the humidity. The next - and for four nights after that - marauding mobs in the Negro suburb of Watts pil laged, burned and killed, while 500 po licemen and 5,000 National Guardsmen struggled vainly to contain their fury. Hour after hour, the toll mounted: 27 dead at week's end, nearly 600 injured, 1,700 arrested, property damage well over $100 million. Minute by minute, police radios logged a Wellsian cata logue of carnage: "Manchester and Broadway, a mob of 1,000 . . . Shots at Avalon and Imperial . . . Vernon and Central, looting . . . Yellow...
...Toll of a Titar
...Nile, sent four-man assassination parties down every street, setting fire to the thatched native huts and shooting down their occupants as they emerged. Many residents, caught between the advancing vengeance squads and the army cordon, threw themselves in panic into the Nile and were drowned. Unofficial death toll...
...road). While 90% are recovered, the police rarely catch the thieves. Solution: all "wanted" license numbers will be stored in a central computer, which is telephone-linked to ten electronic analyzers stationed up to 450 miles away. Each analyzer in turn is linked to 40 TV cameras hidden behind toll booths, stop signs and traffic lights. As the 400 TV cameras monitor every passing license plate, the analyzers encode the digits and the computer compares them with the wanted list. The whole thing takes less than one second -time enough to trip an alarm back at the camera and send...
Force-Feeding. The major contention of the Senate subcommittee was that the automen, with little loss in profits, could make cars safer, reduce the highway death toll that this year will be about 50,000. The hearings were called to consider several bills, some of which would force the companies to build safety devices into cars. Industry leaders argued that they have already done much, and are doing more to increase safety, but that consumers are unwilling to pay for safety features. "If we were to force on people things that they are not prepared to buy," said Donner...