Word: copse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Enter Bobby. YIP seemed doomed. New York cops broke up the yippie invasion of Grand Central Station; kids who valued their skulls began to stay away in droves. Bobby Kennedy's entry into the 1968 presidential race, followed by Lyndon Johnson's dropout, sent yippie stock tumbling. As...
Levity and Levitation. Not for long. Yippie goings-on during the Democratic Convention in Chicago brought the movement prominence far beyond its numbers ("From four to 200,000, depending on the weather," according to Hoffman); the clubs of Dick Daley's cops, used indiscriminately on yippies, newsmen and bystanders...
Beautiful Cops. At first, Mayor Richard Daley had praise for the report. "Overall," said Daley, "it is an excellent study." He confined his criticism to the report's seven-page summary, which ticked off incident after incident of police near-hysteria and expressed astonishment that few policemen had been...
Then, at a press conference, Walker coldly demanded that Chicago's police department "root out and punish" the offending officers. "The blue curtain cannot be permitted to fall," he said. Walker blamed Daley for creating a climate of encouragement for police violence by ordering cops to "shoot to kill...
Until the grand-jury report appeared, at least, it seemed the Chicago police would have the last word. After Walker's attacks last week, Mayor Daley-flanked by smiling policemen-announced a $2,000 pay raise for the city's cops next year. Wages of a man with...