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...brief statement, saying that "to speak of 'a police riot is to distort the history of those days in August. The world knows who the rioters were." Commander Ronald Nash, who headed a force of 135 police during the convention week's most violent confrontation outside the Conrad Hilton Hotel, said of his men: "They were beautiful. They conducted themselves as professional policemen...
...memory. During most of the traumatic week of the convention, a Los Angeles police inspector who was present as an observer thought that "the restraint of the police, both as individual members and as an organization, was beyond reason." But of the Wednesday night battle in front of the Conrad Hilton Hotel, the same official said: "There is no question but that many officers acted without restraint and exerted force beyond that necessary under the circumstances." As his policemen went out of control that night, the deputy superintendent in charge had to pull berserk officers off battered and bruised demonstrators...
...reflex born of two world wars instigated by the Germans in the 20th century. The Bonn government had not helped matters in the current crisis. Usually, it is, if anything, overly concerned about European sensibilities. But this time, the West Germans inexplicably forgot their manners. A main offender was Conrad Ahlers, the former Der Spiegel newsmagazine editor who now is the Federal Republic's deputy spokesman. During the Bonn meeting of the world's financial authorities two weeks ago, Ahlers offered injudicious portrayals of some of the Western representatives' behavior behind the closed doors, characterizing them...
Then Harvard lost the ball on errors three straight times, the Middies took advantage with Tolmie, Scott Semko and Bob Conrad leading the attack and within three minutes, Navy held an eight point margin...
Vladimir Nabakov, like Joseph Conrad, is a foreigner who has become one of the most important stylists in English; but, unlike Barth, he deals with human beings, not metaphysics. The charm, for instance, of the novel Pnin (included in its entirety in Nabokov's Congeires) comes not so much from the telling of the story as from the character of Pnin, a hapless professor of Russian in a small American college. There may be no real separation between style and content, but Nabokov uses his style to create a believable man, charming and pathetic. Having just fallen down a flight...