Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...structures the sole sign of life was a wailing burglar alarm. Lou's Men's Wear expired in a ball of flame. Meantime, a mob of 3,000 took up the torch on the East Side several miles away. The Weather Bureau's tornado watch offered brief hope of rain to damp the fires, but it never came...
When Detroit's police finally were ordered to quell the rioters and to use their weapons when necessary, their initial restraint gave way to near abandon. As in Newark, where overexcited police and state troopers engaged in a brief shoot-out with one another by mistake, fire discipline was lethally...
...national press has almost uniformly called this statement a revolutionary move that may bring a whole new conception of student rights. But in fact, except for the brief clauses on abolishing lists of political organization members and on student voice in academic decisions, the statement calls for nothing which many college students already consider less than the minimum in basic rights and protection...
Until the climactic last half hour, when the actors rescue the plot from the author and make up their own lines, the numerous scenes follow no understandable pattern. But the brutal early scenes have given the characters meaning, and the brief powerful finish generates emotion in the audience. What Anouilh has done is to create a loose play and still jolt the spectators. In short, he plays with the audience. The author-actor states early in the play that "I have always thought we should make the audience and critics rehearse, too." The "Cavern" may refer to the whole theater...
...Photographers. Brief as it was, the strike furnished a foretaste of the chaos that might have been. In New York and Chicago, some 300,000 rail commuters either turned to car pools and buses or stayed home. Near Los Angeles, 1,600 boxcars loaded with perishables were rushed to refrigerated storehouses. Across the U.S., 400,000 rail cars were stranded...