Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...both shocked and disappointed after having read your article of March 12 on an attempted assault on the Lampoon Building by Hollywood (sic) producer Spires Skouras. With typical inefficiency and disregard for the facts, you have this time gone too far. Not only is the entire story a concoction of one of your more imaginative editors, but even the few details given bare no relation to the truth. My capacity at the Lampoon has nothing whatever to do with the circulation department and I have never laid eyes on Mr. Skouras or any of his associates...
Manhattan police, poking through the tenement apartment of Lolita Lebron, last week uncovered several such impassioned verses among her drab effects. They were written by Lolita, the fiery divorcee who organized and led the armed assault on Congress (TIME, March 8), and they serve as a sort of battle hymn for the fanatic Puerto Rican Nationalist Party that also staged the 1950 assault on Blair House. Lolita, police discovered, is a convicted thief and forger who has spent much of her adult life in prison. Last week, as she and her friends were indicted on ten counts of assault (maximum...
...terror." it said, "has transformed New York City's public-school system into a vast incubator of crime in which wayward and delinquent youngsters receive years of 'protection' while developing into toughened and experienced criminals." What is being done about the rising rate of rape, assault, knifings, thefts and dope addiction? Says the News: largely because of a feeling that neither the Board of Education nor Superintendent William Jansen (TIME, Oct. 19) will back them up, many teachers are just doing nothing...
...Conquest of Everest" reveals the same careful planning that spelled success for the fourth major assault on the world's highest peak. The fill in shots which space out the more exciting, on-the-spot scenes in this feature-length presentation are well filmed and valuable in detailing the long, work that went into the ascent...
...From monkey-style haircuts and tight pants to knives and revolvers, from the daily bottle of brandy to riots and adventures in the streets, from annoying pedestrians to armed assault on people, and eventually from the 'samba' and 'boogie-woogie' to jail and the gallows−that is the way Brzoza wanted to develop as a bandit, and then travel to West Germany. Who knows if he wouldn't have returned to Poland as a murderer and an agent of an enemy-espionage gang...