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Even in a period of increasing terrorism, it was a startling explosion of violence. When it was over, six people were dead and nine wounded. The episode was reminiscent of Charles Whitman's homicidal outburst from the top of Austin's Texas Tower, but last week's madness seemed to have more method. The victims were all white, and seven-three dead, four wounded-were policemen...
Even some of the sun states were affected. The University of Texas at Austin, which is endowed with hundreds of thousands of acres of oil-rich land, postponed registration for 38,000 students because natural-gas deliveries had been halted. Staffers at KLRN-TV, the university-operated station, reported to work in thermal underwear and huddled around a camping heater. "We submitted a plan for a nuclear power plant here, but it was rejected by the voters," said Austin City Manager Dan Davidson. "This is an unfortunate education for our citizens that we must have a new source of energy...
...Still speaking of centers and UCLA losses, when the Bruins last lost some 60 games ago in South Bend to the fightin' Irish, Tom Sinnott and Austin Carr were the guards while Sid Catlett and T. Collis Jones were in the corners, but who was N.D.'s starting center? Who was the coach of the Irish? What was the starting lineup that fateful night for Wooden when he returned to the town of his first teaching and coaching job (South Bend Central...
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...against his doctors advice, Lyndon Johnson said, but he could not resist taking the podium at a civil rights symposium in Austin. The audience, about half black, was split between integrationists and separatists. Johnson's advice: to reason together toward amity-even with Richard Nixon...