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...roughly the same time in Boston, about 500 police in riot gear and federal marshals surrounded shabby Charlestown High School, in the shadow of the Bunker Hill Monument. Armed with a high-powered rifle, a police sharpshooter carefully watched a sullen crowd of whites as three yellow buses unloaded 66 black boys and girls. They showed their student identification cards to school officials, passed through an electronic metal detector that checked for weapons, and walked into the gray stone building. Later that day, a band of 100 white youths rampaged down Monument Street, overturning three Volkswagens, and other angry whites...
...tortured soul. Avedon is gentle with Marilyn Monroe, but Oscar Levant is shown as a fading Neanderthal man. The 40-ft.-wide mural of the eleven-member American Mission Council to Saigon (TIME, April 21) during the Viet Nam War (including General Creighton W. Abrams and Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker) can be used as a Rorschach test, asking the viewer to make a judgment of the members' guilt or innocence...
Until late in the week, Abe Beame was struggling to prevent the loss of the power that he had exercised so inadequately during the months of mounting crisis. In the bunker atmosphere of city hall, one die-hard loyalist muttered that Carey and his aides were out to "destroy" the mayor. But the Board of Estimate, the city's principal governing body, decided reluctantly to support the Carey plan as the only alternative to default. In the end, after winning some token concessions from Carey, Beame gave...
Ellsworth Bunker says he hasn't seen Faith since Teddy Roosevelt conquered Cuba in 1897. If this is true we have a real problem on our hands. Anything that has been lost for 80 years is going to be hard to find. But we should join President Ford in looking for Faith all the same. It's the patriotic thing...
...through Chief Negotiator Ellsworth Bunker, has offered, in essence, a gradual ceding of partial sovereignty and Panamanian participation in the canal's operation and defense, but it wants to retain unlimited access for both civil and military aircraft to some zone airports. Panama wants all U.S. military installations phased out and, equally unacceptable to the U.S., total control of the zone and the canal itself...