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...place of the great old trains and of its other long-haul passenger runs, the New York Central plans to start swift, spartan (no club cars) daytime shuttle service between some 80 cities along its 10,000-mile system. This, said Perlman, will "best serve the needs of the traveling public"-not to mention the Central's balance sheet...
...turmoil was not nearly so bad as it might have been; and for once New York-long considered one of the U.S.'s most problem-plagued cities-could attribute the trouble's swift suppression to some foresighted if only partly proved civic remedies. The frenzied Harlem riots of 1964 taught officials a frightening lesson. Negroes on the police force have been given better assignments. Mayor Lindsay recently appointed a seven-man review board-including two Negroes, a Puerto Rican, and two men active in civil rights groups-to handle the predominantly Negro complaints of police brutality. Beyond that...
Grass & Insecticide. To Westerners, the process sometimes seems as brutal as it is effective. Suspects are encouraged to talk by a rifle fired just past the ear from behind while they are sitting on the edge of an open grave, or by a swift, cheekbone-shattering flick of a Korean's bare hand. (Every Korean soldier from Commanding General Chae Myung Shin on down practices for 30 minutes each day tae kwon do, the Korean version of karate.) Once, when the mutilated body of a Korean soldier was found in a Viet Cong-sympathizing village, the Koreans tracked down...
Silent and swift as a Vulture...
...Every poet, in his kind," said Swift, "is bit by him that comes behind." Not only poets get bitten. The Hertz Corp., leading the U.S.'s 4,000-company auto-rental business with record sales of $274 million in 1965, is being at least nibbled by "We're only No. 2" Avis...