Word: attica
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fall of 1971, when word came that Attica prisoners had revolted and were holding hostages, Alpert says she knew instantly that Melville would be killed. As she tells it, confirmation came from a Los Angeles radio announcer who said, "Here's one death no one will regret-Samuel Melville, the mad bomber." In her grief, she blurted out to a friend that she had known one of the Attica victims. When the friend innocently passed the word around, Alpert took to the road once again...
...remind her of her domestic duties. In 1973 she wrote a long rambling feminist manifesto and sent it to Ms. magazine along with a set of her fingerprints to prove its authenticity. It included gratuitous details about the sexual problems of Melville and Rudd and said of the Attica dead, including her former lover: "I will mourn the loss of 42 male supremacists no longer." The article evoked the heaviest reader response in the magazine's history...
...celebrate Thanksgiving, Bok auctions off Plymouth Rock. In a special Thanksgiving Day broadcast from Attica, N.Y., President Rockefeller acknowledges that "many people find being out of work difficult," but advises them to "count their blessings, just...
...Attica...
...Attica also continues at the Welles this week...