Word: aprill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Maryland's Negroes had helped boost Agnew to victory in 1966 and generally considered him a firm friend. After April, his black support shriveled virtually to nothing. Today he is anathema to Maryland Negroes. He criticized national "preoccupation with civil liberties" at the expense of security, said that police were justified in shooting looters if they failed to obey commands to halt, assailed President Johnson for allowing the Poor People's Campaign to camp on federal land. He attacked the Kerner Commission for abetting rioting by talking of white racism. There is "an aura of belief," he said shortly before...
...them a giveaway to the lazy, something-for-nothing. Agnew's father, a Baltimore restaurateur (the Piccadilly and the Brighton) went broke during the Depression and had to sell vegetables from the back of a truck. While many were surprised at Agnew's unyielding stance on civil disorders in April, some tip-off might have come a few weeks earlier when more than 200 students from Bowie State College, a dilapidated, predominantly Negro institution near Washington, came to Annapolis to petition for better facilities. The Governor not only refused to see them but had them arrested, ordering the school closed...
...April 30, 1945, and Berlin, the capital of Adolf Hitler's tottering Third Reich, was a shattered, flaming inferno. Tanks and troops of Soviet General Vasily Chuikov's Eighth Guards army had fought to within a few blocks of the Reich Chancellery. The end was clearly at hand. Some time after lunch that day, Hitler and his wife of one day, Eva Braun, retired to their suite in the Führer's underground bunker to take their lives. They left instructions that their bodies be burned...
...April 11, three bullets slammed into Rudi ("The Red") Dutschke, 28, West Germany's firebrand New Left student ideologist. Two of the slugs lodged in his head, one in his shoulder. Few expected him to live; indeed, his life hung in the balance for days. Now, after two delicate brain operations, Rudi is out of danger and recuperating "somewhere in Italy," according to an illustrated spread in West Germany's Stern magazine. Stern's report shows that Rudi has progressed to the point where he can knock out a few croquet games each day, bat a pingpong...
...Neill is pledged by law to McCarthy for the first ballot at the Democratic National Convention because of the Minnesota Democrat's victory in the April Massachusetts presidential primary. The Bay State Congressman, a member of the powerful House Rules Committee and an eight-term incumbent, is the first major Massachusetts Democratic office-holder to endorse McCarthy...