Word: copse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Looting & Molotovs. Swelling into the hundreds, a mob stormed through the twelve-block area that still bears the scars of what Watts calls "the Au gust revolution," overturning vehicles, smashing store windows, pommeling and stabbing whites. A Mexican-American truck driver, Lawrence Gomez, 30, was surrounded, beaten, and shot to...
The Cops Complain. Accordingly, Lindsay fired the commissioner and brought in Philadelphia's police commissioner, Howard Leary. Two days later, after consulting with city hall, Leary named his own chief inspector, who is the top uniformed police official. The new chief is Sanford Garelik, a Jewish officer with distinguished...
Some of the preparations, of course, had a slightly nervous tinge about them. Ever since the engagement was announced last spring, a small but angry Dutch minority had denounced the match because Von Amsberg had served, at the age of 16, in Hitler's Wehrmacht. Half of Amsterdam'...
Peter Ivers designed the lighting which was exceptionally good. If he thought up the Keystone cops jail-break scene they should let him direct the next one.
Luna Park, once a rhinestone star in the Coney Island constellation, was never rebuilt after a fire in 1944; a housing project went up instead. The other big Coney amusement center, Steeplechase, also closed last year. Coney Island, where the summer visitors used to be packed like subway straphangers, is...