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...offensive will be carried on in the streets and schools all over- especially here in Boston. Boston is a Woodstock city. Frealks are everywhere and are on the move. This summer we rioted in Cambridge Commons, Harvard Square, and Hemenway Street. In Burlington, kids waged an offensive against the town pigs, capped by the fire bomb attack on the pig station...
...some reporters expected McNamara simply to culogize the slain officer and offer his condolences to the family, others knew the Commissioner's growing anger and confusion over what was happening in his city. Over the summer, a Roxbury police station was bombed; another station was hit in nearly Burlington; and reports of police slain in Des Moines, San Francisco, and Minneapolis received more than passing consideration as they crossed his desk...
Last week, on the eve of the fall college semester, there were other explosions. A fire bomb hurled through a window gutted the Burlington, Mass., police headquarters. In Seattle, a bomb exploded in an unoccupied building that until four months ago was the state headquarters for the American Legion. At Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, an employee called police in time for them to dismantle a timed fire bomb found in a kitchen. And in Tulsa, Okla., District Judge Frederick S. Nelson was seriously injured when a bomb wired to the ignition of his station wagon...
...Burlington Industries, sensing a developing market, has included four different tie-dye designs in its fabrics this year, and is mass-producing them. Tie-dye prints are showing up in the fabric centers and even in the hosiery salons of large department stores. Whether they come off the kitchen stove, a rack in a chic boutique or an industrial loom, the bright surprises and flowery amoebae of tie-dyed clothes, cushions and wall coverings will be part of the pattern...
...Justice Department decided that the abrupt cancellation of an Omaha-to-Billings, Mont., train last summer at remote Hemingford, Neb., was outrageous enough to file criminal charges against two Burlington Lines executives. When an expiring court injunction permitted abandonment of the service, they had the train flagged down in mid-run, stranding several irate passengers. The executives were accused of failing to provide service for tickets previously sold; if convicted, they would face fines...