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...Police in Erie, Pa., broke up a sidewalk crap game among Negro youths-and the result was two days of stonings and stickwork. Officials in Cincinnati, Tampa and Buffalo, where ghetto dwellers rampaged earlier this summer, nervously sought ways to avert fresh flare-ups. Racial disturbances also occurred in Plainfield, N.J., Laurel, Md., Kansas City, Mo., and Miami...
...million gal., or 16%, to a total of 65,440,000 gal. Distillers Co. Ltd. also made marked gains with its gins and vodkas, especially in the U.S., where it already operates a distillery and bottling plant in Linden, N.J., plans to open a new one next month in Plainfield...
...North Plainfield...
...born dean of U.S. illustrators, whose diaphanous damsels, Homeric heroes, devilish dwarfs and capering clowns enlivened magazine covers (Collier's, Harper's Weekly), made dull books popular, and helped turn Jell-O and Fisk tires into bestsellers by virtue of their ads; of chronic lung disease; in Plainfield, N.H. In 1964, with a retrospective show in Manhattan, Parrish was hailed as a precursor of pop art, and responded by saying: "How can these avant-garde people get anything out of me? I'm so hopelessly commonplace." Probably his most lasting single work, bought by John Jacob Astor...
STEPHEN J. NOREN Professor of Philosophy Goddard College Plainfield...