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...sleazy Cleveland bar three months ago with a spray can and wrote: BREED-H. A. STOMPERS in 2-ft.-high letters behind the bar. At Christmas in the Golden Nugget, another Cleveland hangout, a dozen Breed members took on-and whipped-an equal number of local Angels in a fistfight. The Breed were ready for a full-scale rumble...
...chosen over Catanzaro as the capital of the region. In Catanzaro, they were blamed for a grenade attack on anti-Fascist demonstrators, which killed one and injured 13. The Catanzaro incident in turn set off demonstrations and rioting in Naples, Genoa and Rome, as well as a fistfight between Communist and neo-Fascist Deputies in the Italian Parliament. Despite the warnings of the Communists, the neo-Fascists have no chance of emulating Benito Mussolini's 1922 march on Rome. But they are capable of giving the country a case of the jitters. Premier Emilio Colombo declared last week that...
Rennie Davis and other radicals immediately formed "The Emergency Committee to Prevent a July Fourth Fistfight"?a group whose purpose seemed to be thwarted in advance by Davis' demands that, among other things, his people receive the right to plant miniature Viet Cong flags on the Ellipse behind the White House, where Boy Scouts and others will set out American flags. The request was, of course, denied, but an attempt by antiwar groups to do anything similar could produce trouble. Ambassadors from the Woodstock nation promise a huge pot party on the Mall for the Fourth, threatening to appear...
...first New York preview, The Liberation of L.B. Jones provoked a brief fistfight between a Negro youth and a white man. This response - which could echo at theaters around the country - accurately reflects the film: frustrating, morally ugly, and in the end as banal as evil itself...
...Public Fistfight. At first, the refugee hippies were accepted with little suspicion. But a spontaneous public fistfight in April was followed by a stabbing and a firebombing, and state troopers were called in to establish an uneasy truce. Last month Taos canceled an annual two-day town festival for fear of further violence, but ugly incidents have continued nonetheless...