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...face value all of the fiery statements made by the demonstration leaders. Chicago's newspapers repeatedly listed diabolical threats aimed at the city, ranging from burning Chicago down by flooding the sewers with gasoline, to dumping LSD in the water supply, to having 10,000 nude bodies float on Lake Michigan. Also widely accepted was the boast that from 100,000 to 200,000 demonstrators would descend on Chicago. Actually, the report estimates, only about 5,000 demonstrators came from out of town-of the 668 persons arrested, 364 were from Illinois and of these 276 were Chicagoans...

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

...passenger Boeing 747 and the supersonic transport. One way to solve the problem, say engineers of Seattle's Aero-Go Inc., is to keep the planes aloft even when they are on the ground. They have done just that by developing a device that can literally float giant jetliners over concrete aprons, taxiways and hangar floors on a cushion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: On a Cushion of Air | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

...features the upholstered monsters of comic strips, the impudent whimsy of Dada, the vibrating poster art of Peter Max. The eclecticism almost becomes a style of its own, and occasionally it is effective, as in Eleanor Rigby when "all the lonely people" appear as gritty newsreel figures who float by each other in a surrealistic frieze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bad Trip | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

Cutler was chasing a long kick down the left side of the field with Penn wing Jeff Rosenglick when Locksley seemed to come out after the ball. Rosenglick reached the ball first and managed to float a shot that bounced over Locksley's head into the untended...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Penn Ruins Soccer Team's No-Loss Record, 2-0; Harvard Drops to 4th Place in League Standings | 11/4/1968 | See Source »

Lampoon officers had originally planned to spend the money in a commemoration of the Battle of Hastings. They planned to have armies and elephants float across the Charles, but the Administration said that undergraduates were not allowed to rent elephants...

Author: By Anne DE Saint phalle, | Title: 'Lampoon' Will Contribute Fruits of 'Life' to Needy | 10/30/1968 | See Source »

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