Word: arming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most ironic fate of all befell Brillo-bearded Jerry Rubin, 30, a former Berkeley free-speecher and now a yippie leader. To protect himself from police strong-arm tactics, Rubin hired a husky, sledge-fisted Chicagoan known as "Big Bob Lavin," whose beard and bellicosity were matched by his ability at bottle-throwing in confrontations with the cops. Big Bob was gassed by the police, fought them valiantly, but was finally clubbed into submission-carrying with him into jail Rubin's tactical diary. Only then was it revealed that Big Bob was really an undercover cop, Robert Pierson...
...delegates and alternates received a free copy of To Heal and To Build, a collection of Johnson speeches. In an otherwise cogent keynote speech, Hawaii's Senator Daniel Inouye devoted paragraphs to the President's accomplishments. A Japanese-American who lost his right arm fighting for the U.S. in Italy during World War II, Inouye was particularly attuned to the problems of another U.S. minority, the blacks, "whose aspirations have burst fullblown on us after more than 100 years of systematic racist deprivation." Asked Inouye: "Is it any wonder that Negroes find it hard to wait another hundred...
...been a lilting summer day throughout Eastern Europe. In the cool of a starry evening in the Czechoslovak capital of Prague, vast Wenceslas Square was alive with couples strolling arm in arm, tourists and Czechoslovaks bustling homeward. Then, just before midnight, telephones began to jangle as friends and relatives living in border towns frantically put in calls to the capital. The alert was spread by taxi drivers and owners of private cars, who raced through the medieval streets with their horns wailing warning. Soon the roar of jet engines reverberated through the night skies; Russian planes were flying ominously...
...least one commutes to work in a Mus tang, which retails for $10,000 in Japan. Through tips, a few make as much as $900 a month, but usually for working later than the clubs' 6-to-ll:30 p.m. hours. Despite the rules, hosts sometimes leave arm-in-arm with their clients at closing time. "Ladies have just as much right as men to decide what to do for the rest of the night," says Club Tokyo's Inoue, adding: "We never suffer from a shortage of hosts...
...Louisiana bar, argued the Plaquemines case in association with a local lawyer. After appearing four times without objection, he was suddenly arrested and charged with practicing without a license. Another lawyer took over the defense, and Duncan was found guilty because he touched a white boy on the arm while breaking up a threatened fight. The U.S. Supreme Court eventually reversed the conviction. Meanwhile, Sobol decided to fight his own case and went to federal court to get his trial stopped...