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...late summer, tensions were high across the nation. More than 8,000 college students travelled to Grant Park and Michigan Avenue in Chicago to protest at the Democratic National Convention. As Eugene McCarthy and his supporters clamored for an open convention, Mayor Richard Daley called in troops from the National Guard for what was to be a violent clash...
Westhelie, Echert At UNH--Daley (2), Presbrey (2), Hanchett: Harvard--Echert (8) Nicklas, Marvin, Woicik. St UNH--Smith 17; Harvard--Camp, 14, Sipe...
Chicago Housing Authority chairman Vincent Lane called for the National Guard to be deployed at Cabrini-Green. Mayor Richard Daley instead ordered a massive police sweep of the 70-acre, 78-building project, which houses 7,000 residents a few blocks from the city's swankest shopping district. At a press conference last Monday, Daley confirmed what most urban Americans already know, saying, "We have seen a complete breakdown of society...
Criticized for a city murder rate that has already topped 790 this year, Daley also announced other measures to beef up security at Cabrini-Green, including the use of metal detectors, IDs for residents and secured entrances. Meanwhile, suspect Anthony Garrett, 33, told police that he shot Dantrell by mistake. Garrett said he was simply trying to take out a few rival gang members when the first-grader...
Olympic Games come and go, but the decathlon world record stood for eight years, until American athlete Dan O'Brien smashed it to bits last week in Talence, France. The old record, 8,847 points scored by Daley Thompson of Great Britain, had long been considered a Mount Everest of track and field. For Dan, who unexpectedly sat out the Barcelona Games after failing to qualify in the pole vault, the 44-point margin of victory had the sweet taste of comeback: "This may not have been the Olympics, but I'm really happy." Next March, indomitable Dan goes...