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...virulent '60s nostalgia. All the basic props were there at Louisiana's predominantly black Southern University: the band of students occupying the administration building, the crowd milling about on the lawn, the stolid cops in riot gear wielding nightsticks and absorbing epithets. Right on cue a miasma of tear gas blanketed the tableau, screams pierced the air and the players scattered. When the smoke cleared, however, the scene was not another Berkeley or Harvard, but was somewhat more reminiscent of Kent State or Jackson State. Lying dead on the ground were two 20-year-old black students, Denver...
Then they went about the business of distributing the Crimsons door-to-door. When they were through, the wily reporters went back to the News building. Ben Beach, taking his cue from Mohammed Ali, wrote a note on Crimson stationary and placed in on the front door of the News office...
Seemingly taking his cue from Otto Rank's theory of birth trauma, Laing said that given the way babies are delivered. "I'm not sure I would want to be born again...
Following Nixon's cue. Chafee also organized a small Democrats for Chafee Committee that he hoped would make at least some inroads into the Democratic strength. His regular organization pledged itself to get out every possible Republican vote and Chafee hoped that with a strong grasp on Nixon's coattails he would be pulled to victory...
...exhaust its targets. George Meany, no stranger to rough-and-tumble public debate, once grumped: "A half-hour on that show can age you ten years." Spivak is also stern with the reporters who appear. At the cost of a certain spontaneity, questioners must speak in turn on his cue; Spivak hates "overtalk from all those eager beavers...