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...neared the park, they were met by 1,500 whites, including many beer-sotted youths who hurled jeers, curses and debris. Only 300 policemen were on hand, half as many as were needed to keep the marchers and the mob apart. One cop was felled when a 3-lb. chunk of concrete hit his head, and another was struck in the groin by a missile; 16 policemen and 16 civilians were injured. The demonstrators huddled in terror at the edge of the park while rocks rained down on them. After a few minutes they fled behind the protection...
...pity of the current era. Some proposals: a la ser rod and a citizen's band radio; the Pill and Gatorade; a shoe from Natalia Makarova and a Frisbee; a Beatles' record and a segment from the Watergate tapes; a Big Mac hamburger and a chunk of moon rock. It says something about the vitality, not to say incoherence of the times, that the list could be endless - and fascinating in its contrasts...
...long primary season moved into its final week, TIME National Political Correspondent Robert Ajemian learned that Washington Senator Henry Jackson is ready to support Jimmy Carter for the Democratic nomination. Jackson had won 249 delegates in the primaries through last week, and Carter will capture a sizable chunk of them. The Senator's move will lift Carter closer to the winning figure of 1,505 delegates, and Jackson hopes by his action to help Carter sew up the nomination...
Those of you who have read this far are very lucky, for I am now going to reveal to you a fact unknown to dozens of the nation's cleverest political pundits. About 15 years ago there was a chunk of malicious fat which managed to waddle its way out of the central scrublands of Georgia. Its name: Crusher Blackwell, all 572 pounds of it. Crusher used to make a fool of himself in front of television cameras by singing ridiculous little jungles like "Jingle bells, jingle bells, I'm gonna stomp Sammartino's head flat." Often he would forget...
With 500 meters to go, Radcliffe had open water on the others. The Tigers, half a length back on B.U., began to paw at the Terrier lead. In a gutsy 400-meter long sprint, Princeton clawed relentlessly through B.U., taking a second-place finish and a chunk off Radcliffe's victory margin...