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Looking out mournfully over the tumult in a resort meeting hall called the Playhouse, New York State Democratic Chairman John Burns last week asked the 345 state party committeemen: "Why have chaos when you can have order?" The question was rhetorical: New York Democrats regard chaos as their birthright. Even so, as they gathered to designate the regular party ticket for Governor, U.S. Senator and other statewide offices, they outdid themselves...
...costume race on skis is a yearly feature at the Storlien mountain resort near Stockholm, and an enthusiastic contestant for the fourth straight year was Crown Prince Carl Gustaf, 23. Dressed as a field surgeon in gown and rubber gloves, Sweden's future king made a sprint for the finish line and wound up on his back with two broken skis. Two days later the costumed "surgeon" needed the ministrations of a genuine medical man. After clipping a slalom gate, he wound up the season with a broken left...
...three for months, but has been stalled by legal and bureaucratic obstacles thrown up by PATCO. Last week a federal judge in Baton Rouge ruled that the transfer would be entirely proper and legal-a ruling that left the sick-out as PATCO's weapon of last resort...
...national basis, 9% of all blacks -more than 2,000,000 Americans-count themselves "revolutionaries" and believe that only "a readiness to use violence will ever get us real equality." Whatever their own convictions about violence, the number of those who believe that blacks "will probably have to resort to violence to win rights" has risen from 21% in 1966 to 31% today. Among black teenagers, it is 40%. A far higher percentage, 59%, advocate violence only as a last resort when all else has failed, but significantly only 25% of those surveyed were willing to say that violence should...
...scarce in the early Depression. To augment them, he turned to pulp writing, finally giving up the law when money began to roll in from Perry Mason. Gardner's concern for the underdog endured long after he achieved literary success. In 1948, he founded the Court of Last Resort, a private organization to aid prisoners whom he believed had been unjustly confined. He gave frequent testimony against capital punishment and often championed conservation projects against powerful interests. He was an enthusiastic sportsman who stopped hunting with a gun in favor of bow and arrow because he felt that...