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While police were pushing the crowd against the hotel front, another body of police in a side street, alerted by a radio call of "policeman in trouble," charged into the flank of the already jam-packed crowd, ultimately forcing a score of people through a plate-glass window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: CHICAGO EXAMINED: ANATOMY OF A POLICE RIOT' | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

...harpoon, smack in the flank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 22, 1968 | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

Readiness. Meanwhile, political and military developments in Europe have given the colonels considerable leverage over the U.S. The growing Soviet naval presence in the Mediterranean convinced Pentagon planners of the need for a strengthening of NATO's eastward flank. Even more important, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and the continuing threat to Yugoslavia were a clear indication that Greece's armed forces should be brought up to a high state of readiness. Consequently, the U.S. State Department wrestled down its objection to the junta and agreed to renewed shipments of heavy arms. The first consignment will consist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greece: The Ultimate Symbol | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

...five fields, from which it will fly MIG-21 interceptors and SU-7 and YAK-28 Firebar fighter-bombers. All in all, the Soviets will leave behind a force sufficient to keep the Czechoslovaks in line and NATO worried about the threat to West Germany's exposed southern flank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: PREPARING FOR THE UNPREDICTABLE | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

Mournful Wails. What they offer is a big, glossy, geared-up show. Flashing, multicolored panels of lights flank a glistening fountain in the background, while two go-go girls shimmy in the foreground. The band, massed in a double row facing the audience, is a discotheque in itself. While punching out blues riffs over a pile-driving beat, the brass and saxophone players whirl their instruments around and swivel through the shing-a-ling, the funky Broadway, and other loose-jointed steps-some of their own devising. Leaders in each section use hand signals to cue the choreography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soul: Joyful Noisemakers | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

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