Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rubin formed an amalgam of political pranksters into the Youth International Party. "Yippies believe in the violation of every law," he once told a crowd, "including the law of gravity." In 1968 they ran a pig for President. As a lead-up to that year's Democratic Convention in Chicago, they vowed to spike the local water supply with LSD. The schemes were mostly put-ons and fodder for the press, Hoffman's most faithful co-conspirator. It was revolution as street shtick...
Hoffman practiced it more dexterously than anyone else, even as one of the Chicago Eight, the group of radical activists, including Tom Hayden and Black Panther Bobby Seale, who were tried for plotting to disrupt the convention. Hoffman and four others were found guilty of crossing state lines with intent to riot, a conviction later overturned...
...start thinking about it. I had to start dreaming about the Chicago Cubs winning the National League East...
...forerunner of the CFA emerged in 1955 out of an unusual collaboration between Harvard University and the Washington, D.C.-based Smithsonian Institute. While similar joint arrangements later developed into leading research sites such as Los Alamos at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Chicago's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratories, the CFA was the first to take advantage of pooled resources and helped stake the U.S. to an early lead in international astrophysics...
...panel agreed with its counsel, Chicago attorney Richard J. Phelan, that Mallick's major interests in real estate and oil and gas ventures and in redevelopment of Fort Worth's historic stockyards district gave him a direct interest in legislation on taxation and on certain appropriations bills. His financing arrangements with savings and loan institutions also gave him an interest in legislation involving the Savings and Loan industry, the committee found...