18 OCTOBER 1957, Page 9

The people of Washington are perturbed about violence in the

city : the day we left, the publisher of the Louisville Courier was clubbed while on a stroll with his wife, close to his hotel; and when the eminent economist Louise Sommer was knocked out and robbed while waiting for a streetcar in front of the Supreme Court Build- ing a few days earlier, her comment was that she shouldn't have been so foolish as to be out alone in Washington after dark. The newspaper report mentioned in passing that she is engaged on research work into the theory of risk.

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