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...filling out a report. In Omaha in mid-August, one policeman was killed and seven others injured when a bomb exploded as they investigated a report of "a woman screaming." Two weeks ago, in a largely black district of Los Angeles, a policeman had his skull creased by a bullet moments after he heard the shout, "You're a dead mother-" Last week the ominous tempo quickened, with deadly attacks on policemen in several cities...
...sleek, bullet-nosed vehicle looks like something off a rocket designer's drawing board. But the shape of the futuristic train is highly functional. As it quickly and quietly gathers speed, it will actually begin to "fly." The streamlined cars will hurtle forward just above the ground at speeds of 300 m.p.h. or more. For the 1,000 passengers on board, the trip will be strikingly smooth and vibrationless...
Private Detail. Most newspapers ignored the rumors and leaks to them of King's extramarital activities, but their existence undermined King's effectiveness just the same. The effect, says Williams, was one of slow political assassination; King was spared it only by the bullet of James Earl...
...Americans who travel overseas marvel at the swift, efficient and inexpensive nationalized railroad service they encounter. In France, the Paris-Marseille-Riviera express made 182 trips in a three-month period last winter and was late a total of one minute and a half. Japan's 125-m.p.h. "bullet train" between Tokyo and Osaka is the technological wonder of the Eastern world...
...Newton arrived at Kaiser Hospital with four bullet holes in his abdomen and one in his thigh... The hospital refused to treat him until the police arrived, and then, when they did treat him, allowed the cops to shackle him to an operating table. Although he was shouting in pain for the doctors to case the shackles, the doctor treating him told him to shut up. He insists that at least one cop hit him in his wounded abdomen with a nightstick and that several beat him on the wrists and elsewhere until he passed out from the pain...