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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since July, when the first blast rocked a United Fruit Co. pier on the Hudson River, there have been eight dynamitings. Before each explosion, the bombers called guards in the targeted buildings, warning them to clear the area, and also informed the news media. Though no deaths resulted, there was one near miss. In August, a blast in a Broadway trust company injured 17 people. Some might have been killed, but all were partially shielded by a two-ton computer, which was moved two feet by the detonation of 24 dynamite sticks...
...down too far from its target crater, Conrad and Bean may not have enough oxygen in their back-up life-support packs for the planned walk to the Surveyor spacecraft. An inaccurate landing would also affect plans for next spring's scheduled Apollo 13 visit to a highlands area near Crater Fra Mauro. Before as tronauts risk landing in such a rugged area, NASA officials must be convinced that a lunar module can be set down on a selected segment of the lunar surface with exquisite precision...
...cops, however, weren't. Squad cars patrolled the whole area. As soon as a group of more than 50 people gathered at any street corner the cops gathered to meet them. First three or four motorcycles would arrive. Then the tear gas would be hurled. Then the cycles would sweep down the sidewalk. The object was to scatter the crowd and disperse them. If the kids had stayed together and marched either toward the White House, seven blocks away, or into the nearby ghetto Washington might have gone up in smoke...
...victor goes the right to play the champion of the New York NCAA District 2 area. In the opening rounds of that competition. Hartwick walloped R. P. I., 5-3, while Adelphi blanked...
...freshman football program at Harvard is vastly different than those in some area colleges and in the Big Ten. As much as is possible with the vast numbers sent us each year, all players are given a chance to prove themselves under game conditions. If any aspect of the football program is wrong, it's probably in the recruiting system which consistently sends us this talent and in the Admissions office which accepts...