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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Kindig, 13, a white seventh-grader at Jefferson Junior High, where the white enrollment has grown from 10% to 55% under the busing program, agrees. "All these adults keep telling us we're supposed to be against busing," he says. "They tell each other 'Burn the buses, tear down the schools, beat up the niggers.' Who do they think they are? We're the ones who are going to school. We're the ones that have to live together. We can do it fine if they'll let us alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The View from the Bus | 3/13/1972 | See Source »

During the depression, Hutchinson managed and played on a hockey team he organized at the Brae Burn Country Club in West Newton. "That's how I learned about the game," he said. "I played with the greats: George Owen--later a Bruins captain, and John Garrison--three times an Olympic star...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hutchinson Ends Successful Reign As JV Hockey Coach | 3/10/1972 | See Source »

They wreck hydrants by hacksawing the control stem or stuffing the shaft with beer cans. They fling bricks at passing fire trucks and often hit the fire men. "Burn, baby, burn!" they chant as their neighbors' homes incinerate, and often as not investigation shows that the fires Smith fights were set by rejected lovers or crafty landlords or teen-age torch parties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pyromanticism | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

Vonnegut, Sneak preview of a new film written by Kurt Vonnegut. UFO Orson Welles, 11:45, Feb. 25. Burn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the screen | 2/24/1972 | See Source »

...owned a Stanley and I had a Doble. The Doble was a great machine, but they both had two big flaws . . . For one thing it took anywhere up to five minutes to get up a head of steam, and the goddam garage could burn down in that time. And also you couldn't get more than 70 or 80 miles to a tankf ul of water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Hughes Super-Steamer | 2/21/1972 | See Source »

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