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...turned out, the "more inactive" police "were amused by the whole scene, especially since they were under orders not to intervene when they could avoid doing so." In fact, when a demonstrator got caught in the crush, unable to light his cigarette, a bobby "reached forward and politely struck flame from his lighter." The police, she reports, "even joined the demonstrators in singing Auld Lang Syne." All in all, "we witnessed in the Demo something like a medieval carnival in modern setting, with everybody changing places, the fool becoming king for a day, the police merging with the populace...
...from the flame-trench, up from the Launch
After ten days during which 16 explosions rocked the mine and turned its tunnels into blast furnaces of flame, gas and smoke, Consolidation Coal Company's Number 9 in Marion County, W. Va., was sealed last week. That somber decision made the mine a tomb for the 78 men missing in its depths. But company, government and union officials agreed that there was no other way to save the burning mine-and that the trapped men below were almost certainly dead from fire or gas, or both...
Flickering Flame. Birth and Death, as the film is titled, this week provided a powerful start for the Public Broadcast Laboratory's second and possibly last season. A $12,5 million, two-year experiment of the Ford Foundation, PBL was founded to prove that public TV, if adequately financed, could light candles of culture and significance amid the darkness of commercial TV. But during its first year, the flame of PBL flickered disappointingly...
...have been Robert F. Kennedy's 43rd birthday, his brother Ted brought his own and the slain Senator's family to pray and leave flowers. Two days later, on the fifth anniversary of John F. Kennedy's death in Dallas, the family returned to visit the flame-lit grave a little farther up the hill. In New York, Mrs. Aristotle Onassis took John and Caroline Kennedy to a special Mass for their father-one of many such memorial services across the country...