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Thomas A. Sullivan, associated with the School of Education, is running twelfth...
Bulging with five-year plans, confidential memos and balance statements, the dozen-odd attache cases are seldom out of their owner's sight. At work in New York, he lovingly lines them up on window ledges in his twelfth-floor office overlooking Park Avenue; at night, he takes a couple of them back to his East Side apartment for bedtime reading. For his frequent trips to Europe, he picks up four or five and carries them along on the plane. And on weekends, he lugs several to his weathered, two-bedroom cottage in New England, where he pores over...
Riots and looting spread through the afternoon over a 10.8-sq.-mi. area of the West Side almost as far north as the Northland Shopping Center. An entire mile of Twelfth Street was a corridor of flame; firemen answering the alarms were pelted with bricks, and at one point they abandoned their hoses in the streets and fled, only to be ordered back to the fire by Cavanagh...
...continued into the week, homes and shops covering a total area of 14 square miles were gutted by fire. While U.S. Army paratroopers skillfully quieted their assigned trouble area on the East Side, National Guardsmen, jittery and untrained in riot control, exacerbated the trouble where it all started, on Twelfth Street (see box). Suspecting the presence of snipers in the Algiers Motel, Guardsmen laid down a brutal barrage of automatic-weapons fire. When they burst into a motel room, they found three dead Negro teen-age boys-and no weapon. The Guardsmen did have cause to be nervous about snipers...
...long hours last week, Detroit's police hung back from the Twelfth Street riot area. Apparently, one resident quipped, they were hoping that "if they left, the crowd would leave too." But if there is one point that has been proved repeatedly over four summers of ghetto riots, it is that when the police abandon the street, the crowd takes it over, and the crowd can swiftly become a mob. It happened in Watts, in Boston's Roxbury district, in Newark and in blood and fire in Detroit...