Word: brawls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peaceful People." Just as bruising was the ordeal of the seven Freedom Riders aboard Bus No. 2, which had trailed several miles behind the lead bus coming into Anniston. In Anniston, eight whites climbed aboard, began roughing up the Freedom Riders before cops broke up the brawl. At Birmingham's Trailways Terminal, another mob charged the bus, swinging fists, blackjacks and lengths of pipe. Although the terminal is just two blocks from Birmingham's police headquarters, the cops were conspicuously absent when the blood began to flow. Said tough, bullfrog-voiced Police Commissioner Eugene ("Bull") Connor later...
...prisoners to the U.S. to discuss the deal. In a grotesque side offer, Castro said he would trade invasion Commander Manuel Artime, 28, for his own man Francisco ("The Hook") Molina, 29, awaiting sentencing in Manhattan for the murder of a nine-year-old Venezuelan girl in a restaurant brawl last September...
Administrative trials are, however, only a part of the town-gown tradition, and in another area--student-police relations--Brown fares much worse than Harvard. More than just spring rioting was involved in a brawl in March between Brown boys and the police outside a Providence restaurant. Rough abuse and foul language, apparently regular features of police action in the Brown community, only increased the antagonism that Brown men feel towards the Providence Police...
...Skagg, who became a millionaire by training youths in his shady science and sending them across the country in teams. There was Madame Mustache of Nevada City, Calif., who ran a square game with free champagne for all, made men remove their hats when gambling, and forbade them to brawl or use naughty language; and Richard Albert Canfield, the biggest single gambler of them all, who rose from a $2-a-week shipping clerk to owner of the Saratoga Club, one of the world's biggest and most lavish gambling houses, became a top collector of Whistler paintings (including...
...first, everything seemed to go wrong for Novelist Norman (The Naked and the Dead) Mailer, 37. Last month, in quick succession, Mailer got involved in a Manhattan nightclub brawl (the charge: disorderly conduct), stabbed his wife Adele after a long, late party (the charge: felonious assault), and was promptly committed to Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital for psychiatric observation. But soon things began to go right for him. Released from Bellevue as a sane man, Mailer went to court, happily heard the disorderly conduct charge dismissed. Though he still faces a hearing on the knifing charge, the only witness against...