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...then there was Monday morning: street fighting, anger, hatred. Nobody sang "We Shall Overcome" in Dupont Circle Monday morning. The idealism was gone, burnt out by a system that is so good at burning out idealism, replaced by a harsh militance...
...highest number of arrests occurred in areas around Dupont Circle in northwest Washington, the Washington Memorial, and at George Washington...
...stream of 35 military police jeeps encircled Dupont Circle, where police scattered demonstrators and arrested them for jaywalking and walking against the traffic lights. Arrests were usually rough, and police brought in dogs to disperse bands of demonstrators on sidestreets...
...legality of some borrowing and the betrayal of fiduciary trust. The report singled out the activities of David C. Bevan, Penn Central's deposed chief financial officer, and Charles J. Hodge, a former partner in the Manhattan investment banking house of Glore. Forgan (now merged to become F.I. duPont, Glore, Forgan & Co.), who was the railroad's chief investment adviser. Their instrument was Penphil, a private investment company formed by Bevan. Hodge and 14 cronies in 1962, which they hoped to build into a large conglomerate holding company. The Patman report charged that Penphil prospered by buying...
...latest Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Survey of Broadcast Journalism expressed concern that the success of happy news could downgrade the standards of all TV journalism. On some stations, in fact, there are hopeful signs. A number of dabblers in happy talk are sobering up after their earlier excesses, and have settled on an informal format far superior to the original portentous and lugubrious style of TV news. Atlanta's WSB has toned down its forced spontaneity, and the ABC-owned station in Chicago, WLS, which was among the first to succeed with news giggles, has recently reverted...