Word: copse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Boston papers have traditionally entrusted their coverage of day to day activities at the University to their regular Cambridge reporters. These men personify the late-late show image of police reporters. They spend their working days traveling between the Cambridge and Somerville police stations and they hold down their jobs...
No Warning. Police witnesses said that 66 highway patrolmen were attacked by a "thundering" mob of 150 to 200 State College students near the campus. The students threw rocks, bottles and other objects and, said some cops, fired guns. Only then did the police open fire. Testified Police Captain Jesse...
Not so, according to the students, who said they had merely been walking in a group of some 75 to 100 to watch firemen put out a grass fire. Without warning or provocation, they said, the police opened up in a murderous fusillade of shotgun, pistol and rifle fire. Said...
Promoted. Nevertheless, the state refused to investigate the incident, and Governor Robert McNair backed the police. Five of the nine defendants subsequently won promotions, and a federal grand jury refused to indict. Finally, the Justice Department brought misdemeanor charges against the nine. The state provided the cops' defense lawyers...
Both sides quickly stiffened their efforts. Sheriff Frank I. Madigan, 61, empowered to act under a Governor's emergency decree issued during a previous student disorder, called in Guardsmen and police from surrounding areas. Soon 2,260 troops, plus cops and sheriff's deputies, patrolled the town and...