Word: brawls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard, Yale and other Northern schools. When university officials finally gave the students one hour to vacate the building or face criminal prosecution, the rebels abandoned their sit-in. But just as it seemed that violence had been avoided by the administration's firmness, a 90-minute brawl erupted between police, the black protesters and 1,000 white student supporters. After tear gas and clubs failed to break up the demonstration, the police departed under a fusillade of insults. By then, three dozen students and police had been injured; five people, four of them Duke students, were arrested. Governor...
...fluid on his clothing and set him aflame. In San Francisco, helmeted police dispersed teen-agers from the grounds of Mission High School after violence had flared between black and Spanish-speaking students for six successive days. In Hamden, Conn., seven students were arrested for participating in a racial brawl in the high school cafeteria...
...Bitter Brawl. Enter Hughes. His of fer last August of $22 a share, or about $94 million, set off a turbulent board room brawl. Air West Chairman Nick Bez, 73, former head of West Coast and a generous contributor to the Democratic Party in Washington State, spoke for Hughes. Lined up against him were Vice Chairman Edmund Converse, for mer head of Bonanza, and President G. Robert Henry. They insisted that Air West has enormous potential and that the offer, made through the Hughes Tool Co., was far too low. Says Henry: "We're spread over the richest...
...patrolman judges offenses by the prevailing standards of the immediate community. He might ignore a small theft in a ghetto neighborhood, but investigate the same theft in a prosperous white area. Only in more serious offenses would he crack down, perhaps breaking a few more heads in a street brawl than would a policeman with a different style. An officer of the Albany police force described his watchman style...
...organ in Everett C. Thomas' chest in 31 min. His second, for Recipient James B. Cobb, took 42 min. Cooley's third transplant, which took about 30 min., raised a legal question. The heart came from Clarence Nicks, 32, who died after being beaten in a barroom brawl. Nicks showed no brain-wave activity and had had no reflexes for hours before his doctors shut off the machine that had been oxygenating the blood in his lungs. There was, therefore, no question that Nicks was legally dead. But since he had been involved in what could become...