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While I waited, I wandered about among the medics, hoping that they might be one of the focal points of the action that was about to take place. (And, anyway, since I had now become an affinity group of one, it was also quite the circumspect thing to do.) But the medics were mostly volunteers, with the kind of nervous enthusiasm common among first year section men. They kept giving every one around them suspicious looks...
...Redgate was the focal point of the confrontation between police and demonstrators, and the other families offered symbolic resistance after her decision to leave on her own. Miss Frances O'Brian did not leave until she received the warrant from the deputy sheriffs. She said that she wanted "to prove in principle that we didn't leave voluntarily." Mrs. Mary Casey likewise did not leave until the warrant was served...
...warned that this refusal must not happen on the fringes of society like that of the American hippies or Dutch Provos, because society can easily contain the marginal revolts of individuals. The only recourse was a frontal attack against society by relusing all legitimacy and doing the illegal. The focal point was direct action, violent and spectacular confrontation through personal insult, scandal, provocation, violent street demonstrations, and breaking of police lines. The aim was to ridicule...
SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). Crime in the streets of Washington, D.C., Mafia activities in Buffalo and campus disturbances at Harvard are the focal point for this report on "The Violent Americans...
...City Council has always been the focal point or at least the chief arena of politics in Cambridge, yet it is a body which possesses relatively little power. The City Manager has far more. Under the City's proportional representation system of elections, city councillors get to be city councillors by appealing, each to his own, to small, well defined groups of voters who usually live in one specific area of the City. Given their lack of power, city councillors try to satisfy "their people" in small ways--for example by getting them a traffic light--and by emotion-charged...