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Somehow in the next hour or so, the house was turned into a shambles. About 200 windowpanes were broken, curtains were torn down, telephones torn out, rugs were scattered, a refrigerator and various lamps were turned over, and most of the furniture ended up on the beach. The police took about 30 of the young bloods down to the station house for a few hours of questioning. About a dozen of them admitted doing the damage, tentatively estimated...
...Government employees are "reasonably happy" in rented offices and Billings suffers from an oversupply of rentable office space. In Cleveland, said Neilan, the Urban Renewal Administration approved $43 million in grants and loans for a rebuilding program in which 60 of 84 buildings to be torn down are still structurally sound. Neilan saved his severest criticism for the Area Redevelopment Administration, whose agents, said he, are "combing the country in search of communities which will accept such tokens of ARA generosity as a ski lift or waterworks or a sewer line at the expense of every taxpayer." Notable ARA projects...
Superior Subordinates. The chief U.S. objection to Diem is not so much that he is a dictator, but an inefficient dictator. The proper democratic standards of the League of Women Voters cannot be applied to a deeply war-torn country, and Mme. Nhu has a point when she defends the regime's intolerance of opposition: "We consider Communism opposition enough in wartime, but we will have open declared opposition as soon as peacetime allows." The trouble is that Diem rules not so much by firmness as by confusion; deliberate disorganization is his way of keeping possible enemies off balance. Cabinet...
That boast seemed grotesquely inappropriate last week. Torn by bloody race violence, the city of Cambridge (pop. 13,000) was under martial law, its streets patrolled by a unit of the Maryland National Guard. As in many another city beset by the Negro revolt, responsible Negro leadership in Cambridge had suddenly given way before the thrust of militancy...
...austere and cultivated Krupp hit it off immediately with the gregarious and self-made Beitz, partly because Beitz thought Krupp wanted to borrow money from his insurance firm and was thus unawed by him. Krupp really was looking for someone to put back together his war-torn company, and offered Beitz virtually unlimited authority...