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After Chicago broke out in a summer rash of racial violence last month (TIME, July 28), Mississippi's Representative John Bell Williams, voicing the views of many segregationists, piously asked why Attorney General Robert Kennedy had not sent U.S. marshals to Chicago, just as he had to Alabama when the Freedom Riders first headed south...
...deserted streets, some of them paced by a snarling police dog. On Cermak Road, the boundary between the community's white and Negro neighborhoods, stores shut down or were empty of customers. Said a police sergeant: "In my 30 years here, there has never been such a rash of racial violence...
...Mencken called attention to the native U.S. talent for "reducing complex concepts to starkest abbreviations." From O.K. to K.O., Americans have long coined initial-born words. But what began as playful sport has turned into contagion and verbal smog (smoke and fog). Just to describe the new rash of alphabetease, linguists were forced to invent a new word: acronym (from the Greek akros for tip, onyma for name), which first appeared in dictionaries in 1947. Most insidious breeders are public relations experts, adept at spawning the punch word that sums up an organization, then, to fit its letters, turning...
Since this is an election year in New York (see THE NATION), the teachers got fast action. Mayor Wagner personally visited the school and got more publicity than he bargained for when a rat scurried across his path in the auditorium. Pictured in the papers, this scene encouraged a rash of complaints...
...BEGIN, edited by Richard L Grossman (144 pp.; Simon & Schuster; $1.95), is part of a rash of books about the New Frontier. John Kennedy had been in the White House for a little more than two weeks when a task force of 14 writers and photographers was at work recording, in words and pictures, the first 100 days of his new Administration. The contributors include men and women of such established reputation as Princeton's History Professor Eric F. (Rendezvous with Destiny) Goldman and the London Economist's Barbara Ward, but their product is a weird paste...