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...mayor of Benton Harbor, Mich., a fruit-marketing center of 19,000, declared a state of emergency and 350 Michigan National Guardsmen were put on alert after two nights of violence followed the fatal shooting of a Negro youth by a white man. Negroes had been complaining about lack of recreational facilities and what they called the discourtesy of local police...
...fired off samples of their best hardware at the eighth national meet of the National Association of Rocketry. The 2,000-member organization was formed in the post-Sputnik days, had as its main aim the laying down of rules so that the hobby, which often proved fatal, would be safe as well as fun. Eight years ago, the N.A.R. estimates, homemade rockets were killing or maiming one out of every seven kids and laymen attempting to mix fuel and fire a backyard bird. Explosive mixtures of sulphur and zinc dust blinded and burned dozens of people; lead pipes packed...
...Your statement, "Flying doctors had a fatal-accident rate four times as high as the average for all other private pilots" [Aug. 5] is misleading. Physicians with better-than-average incomes have high-performance aircraft, fly more than other groups, and therefore have greater exposure to accidents. Even so, members of the Flying Physicians Association, numbering 2,000 (about half the known U.S. and Canadian physician pilots), have an accident rate approximately the same as the average. We believe that our requirements of certification of higher aviation skills, such as basic instrument ability as a requirement for membership renewal, result...
...ordinary duty. The theory is that thugs are less inclined to pack a gun themselves if they know the cops will not shoot. Though only 24 British policemen have been killed in the last 55 years, the tacit truce between cops and crooks is occasionally shattered-as in the fatal shooting of three policemen last week on a London street...
...Nicaragua, Lorenzo Guerrero, former Interior Minister and Vice President, succeeded automatically to the presidency fortnight ago after the fatal heart attack suffered by President René Schick, the quiet, courtly Managua professor who was the hand-picked candidate of Nicaragua's all-powerful Somoza family. Guerrero plans no changes in government policy, is expected only to keep the office until next February's elections, when Anastasio ("Tachito") Somoza intends...