Word: batons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Southern students played a large part in massive demonstrations which desegregated public facilities in Baton Rouge. In 1969, they mounted a huge demonstration and boycott to protest the lack of black-oriented courses and to call for the end of near-feudal administration of the Southern University system. Once more, in the fall of 1972, black students at Southern sought mass action towards justice and resistance. A chronology of events lends some clarity to the importance of the students' efforts...
This November 16 will mark the second anniversary of the day on which two cold-blooded murders took place at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. On November 16, 1972, a peaceful, unarmed group of black students in front of the Administration Building awaiting the promised arrival of the university President with an answer to their demands was stormed by State Police and Sherriff's deputies with tear gas, rifles, pistols, and shotguns. When the smoke cleared, two black students lay mortally wounded...
...naked wiring, Eva sleepwalks her way fixedly toward suicide. She tries to jump out a window, impale herself on a knife, throttle herself with a rope, electrocute herself and take poison. Half dead with fatigue, she ends the act conducting the others, with a waveringly insistent hammer for a baton, in a chorus of The Twelve Days of Christmas...
...turned out, however, the Dragons of Death, who never numbered more than about 50, did not really breathe fire. On the third day of their sit-in, three unimposing civil policemen, one of them armed with a pistol and the other two carrying only batons, pushed past the unshaven, hollow-eyed vigilantes at the station door. "Go home," one of the policemen said. "We will handle this from now on." There was a brief protest, and some of the young rebels menacingly fingered their shotguns and pistols. Finally, one of the policemen put down his baton and wrenched a rocket...
...Lyndhurst, Financier Jay Gould's old estate on the Hudson River. Shalit, an amateur bassoonist, accepted with pleasure. As a child, he had taken piano lessons: "You know the kind of thing, the music teacher kisses your Fingers to see if you're a genius." Waving his baton, Shalit said he rehearsed William Boyce's Fifth Symphony and Haydn's "Farewell" Symphony "like fury. I didn't even stop when the record turned...