Ordered into action by President Johnson, Army paratroopers clamped an armored lid on Detroit and an uneasy calm was finally established. There had been 48 hours of killing, pillaging and burning and at least 23 people had died in the rioting. Hundreds more had been injured in racially oriented ugliness.

Kansas University’s $22 million annual salary budget was to be raised by more than $3.5 million if Chancellor Clarke Wescoe’s recommendations to the Kansas Board of Regents could be approved.