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...convinced that the blue-coated arm of the law leads directly to an outstretched hand. One public administration expert studied the Chicago cops' political "clout" and time-perfected "take" systems, reported with scholarly awe that only one procedure would clean up the department: fire all hands, start over. Mob murders go unsolved as in Capone's reign, and petty bribery of traffic cops is the accepted procedure (Comedian Mort Sahl describes Chicago's Outer Drive as "the last outpost of collective bargaining"). But last week Chicago's cops got a new boss, and the legend...
...Whose Kenya is it?" shouted Tom. "Ours!" shrieked 20,000. Now the mob's chant was in throbbing rhythm. "Are you tired of asking for freedom?" asked Tom. "No!" came the resounding answer...
...Ball Game." In Chingola, Northern Rhodesia, a mob of more than 100 stone-throwing natives tried to break up a meeting led by Graham's assistant, Evangelist Grady Wilson, and in Kitwe rumors spread that the police would shoot down Africans at the rally. Over a burst of catcalls and whistles, Evangelist Wilson appealed to the crowd: "There are people here who need Christ. This is not a ball game or a political rally-it's a church service, and I ask for silence...
...recreation hut in Squaw Valley's Olympic Village was a wall-to-wall mob scene of vividly dressed, ruddy-cheeked young athletes, gathered there from 30 countries for the 1960 Winter Olympics. In their midst a smiling, fragile-looking woman in a ruby-red suit and a black topcoat struggled to keep her footing. As two waves of muscular young men converged on her, someone called out: "Can you breathe?" Breathing hard, the Second Lady of the Land nodded, finally succeeded, by holding her pen at chin level, in writing her autograph for an eager French athlete...
...Cuba, Panama, Puerto Rico and Venezuela met in Panama in a round-robin fight for the twelfth annual Caribbean championship. When Panama's Elias Osorio hit a two-run homer over the wall to beat Venezuela in the bottom of the ninth, he was waylaid by a delirious mob on the third-base line. Frantic hands clutched his sleeve, pounded his back, hoisted him high and then dropped him. Waiting at home plate, Umpire Pat Orr fumed as he fought to keep his feet in the crush. "Be patient, Pat," shouted Panama's third baseman Hector Lopez...