Word: conrade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that while concentrating on the admitted provocations to police by many of the youths, it virtually ignores the savagery of police in attacking demonstrators, newsmen and onlookers alike. The most that Daley would concede is that "some innocent bystanders may have been injured" in one police assault at the Conrad Hilton...
...earlier report, the mayor's emergency truth squads confined themselves to interviewing police, National Guardsmen and hotel security officers-the very people they were intent upon exonerating. In probing the 5 a.m. police raid on the McCarthy headquarters in the Conrad Hilton, Daley's "investigators" failed to question any of the volunteers who were supposedly raining dangerous debris onto the heads of cops and passersby. Some objects obviously were thrown from hotel windows; just as obviously, neither the cops nor the National Guard could have known which windows they came from. Daley's supporters have also made...
...clergymen and at least one cripple. Winston Churchill's journalist grandson got roughed up. Playboy's Hugh Hefner took a whack on the backside (see PRESS). The police even victimized a member of the British Parliament, Mrs. Anne Kerr, a vacationing Laborite who was Maced outside the Conrad Hilton and hustled off to the lockup...
FROM his bedroom window on the 23rd floor of the Conrad Hilton, Eugene McCarthy viewed the carnage on Michigan Avenue, turning now and again to the TV screen to watch the dissolution of his own hopes at the convention hall. Only once, when California's Jesse Unruh, a holdout supporter of Teddy Kennedy, appeared on the screen, did he show anger. And even that was relatively subdued. "That doublecrossing son of a bitch," he growled...
Murphy was bitten by the golf bug during his freshman year at the University of Florida. He learned the fine points of the game from his physical education instructor, Conrad Rehling, whom he still consults by telephone during important matches. Rehling straightened out Murphy's natural hook, made him develop a fade. "He taught me everything I know," says Murphy. "He saw I had fire and guts and desire and he taught me how to use them." By his sophomore year Murphy was "playing golf like there was no tomorrow," and by the time graduation rolled around...