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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then grotesquely, the groom escorted his bride to the familiar Tonight guest couch. Johnny, looking mighty puffed up in his tuxedo, greeted them from behind his accustomed desk. There followed a commercial and a champagne toast (the couple drank milk and honey). Tiny serenaded his bride and read plugs for the florist who had supplied 8,000 tulips, his hairdresser, and several other generous purveyors. After sign-off, the couple held an unruly press conference in which Tiny estimated that their kiss during the ceremony had been "about our fifth," but then proceeded to buss Miss Vicki 100 more times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Puff-Up Time | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...November 19, more than 100 members of SDS and other students sat-in in May's office-keeping him there for more than an hour-and a group of them forcibly prevented him from leaving by linking their arms and surrounding his desk...

Author: By Mitchell S. Fishman, | Title: Disciplinary Group Emphasized Harrassment, Obstruction of May | 12/17/1969 | See Source »

...charged 25 students with violating various provisions of the Faculty's Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities after more than 100 members of SDS and other students sat-in at his office November 19 and a group of them prevented him from leaving by linking their arms and surrounding his desk...

Author: By Mitchell S. Fishman, | Title: Rights Committee Fires Sixteen For Role in November 19 Sit-in | 12/16/1969 | See Source »

Calling Lehman "vastly overcrowded," Thomas E. Crooks, Master of Dudley House, has asked all persons eating lunch at Lehman Hall to stop at the checker's desk and identify their University affiliation. Crooks also wants GSAS students to complete a short questionnaire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overcrowded Lehman Checks Lunch Clients | 12/9/1969 | See Source »

...court-martialed on charges of premeditated murder. Danforth saw him again at Fort Benning last week, but this time was not allowed to speak to him. "He could communicate only with a gesture of recognition," Danforth reports. "He shuffled papers nervously, trying to look busy at his practically empty desk. Under the circumstances, he seemed reasonably cheerful." Calley is attached to the staff of the deputy post commander, Colonel Talton Long, designing plans for the colonel's parking lot and working on an infantry museum project while he helps prepare the defense for his court-martial. One month ago Calley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: An Average American Boy? | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

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