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...across the U.S. After a long season when colleges seemed becalmed, ripples of dissent and discontent are beginning to appear. While the demonstrations are hardly comparable in size, intensity or effect with the tumultuous wave of campus protests that changed the political landscape of the country in the late 1960s, they nevertheless indicate that the frequent laments about apathy and self-absorption in the 1980s student are not wholly justified...
ARRESTED. Huey P. Newton, 43, co-founder of the Black Panthers, the violence- and faction-ridden black militant organization that enjoyed a radical-chic vogue in the 1960s and '70s; on charges that he and an associate embezzled as much as $67,000 in federal and state funds; in Oakland. The money was allegedly taken from a community education and nutrition program the Panthers operated from 1973 to 1983. A post-arrest police search of Newton's home turned up burglary tools, a loaded .45-cal. automatic and a shotgun, for which he also faces charges...
...most current musicals, however, that could not be solved by some intelligent storytelling. Grind and Leader of the Pack, for example, each offer rousing songs, appealing players and a wellspring of goodwill. What neither offers is common sense in constructing a narrative. Leader draws its name from an early 1960s rock hit, one of dozens written by Ellie Greenwich, mostly with her then husband Jeff Barry. The book, concocted by a committee that clearly never arrived at any binding resolutions, seems unable to settle on whether it should showcase those mostly upbeat anthems or chronicle the composers' mostly downbeat lives...
...good enough," King replies.) A man asks King to recommend a doctor who can advise on the pros and cons of surgery for a separated shoulder. (King obliges with the names of two former guests.) Another call consists only of a disembodied recording of the opening theme from a 1960s TV series. (King identifies it: Combat, starring Vic Morrow.) All in a night's work...
...course the Bomb had a traumatic effect on the Japanese. I was in Hiroshima in the 1960s, speaking at a dinner of the country's leaders. The Japanese are excellent hosts. They drink pretty good, as we say. All through my speech there was clapping and laughing, and then I mentioned the bombing, something to the effect that it should never happen again--and the light went out of their eyes. All the smiles went. It was as if somebody had [he makes the gesture of cutting the air with a sword]. Like that. Hiroshima was simply too horrible...