Word: arms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...majority, the court ruled that the Des Moines youths had a constitutional right to wear black arm bands to school as a protest against the war in Viet Nam. Among the five junior-and senior-high teen-agers who had been temporarily suspended from their schools for making that quiet demonstration in December 1965 were Mary Beth Tinker and John Tinker, children of a Methodist minister who works for the pacifist American Friends Service Committee. Writing for the majority, Justice Abe Fortas declared that the issue was not a frivolous one, such as a boy's hair style...
...With fond--recollections of the Bruno Sammartino-Shiek title match still titillating their memories, true Harvard sports afficienadoes are trouping to the IAB today for the first round of the intramural boxing tourney. Tuck a six-pack of Bud under your arm, steel yourself with your towniest "Kill de bum!", and join them. Next week, it's roller derby in Providence...
Pointed at the suspect like a dowser's divining rod, the weapon works on two simple principles: speed and pressure. Before the offender can escape, or if he resists arrest, the sticks are clamped around his arm, wrist or hand. The cords act as a hinge. If he resists, the arresting officer merely squeezes the sticks, inducing severe, immobilizing pain. Either way, no permanent injury is usually inflicted because the pain will subdue the offender before any physical damage occurs...
...Rome and Florence when it hit an icy patch on the road. The car slammed into a lane divider, then caromed across the highway and pounded into a wall overlooking a 200-ft. ravine. Just before the crash, the front-seat passenger, Film Director Franco Zeffirelli, flung out his arm in a gallant gesture toward the driver. "My one thought was to save her face," he said later. As it turned out, Driver Gina Lollobrigida picked up no more than a bruise on the left cheekbone of her pretty face. But a broken kneecap required two operations-one to repair...
Died. Jack Kirkland, 66, newspaper-man-turned-playwright who in 1933 transformed Erskine Caldwell's earthy Tobacco Road into one of the most successful Broadway plays of its time (more than 3,000 performances), wrote the Broadway version of Man with the Golden Arm, and recently completed the book for a musical adaptation of Tobacco Road entitled Jeeter; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...