Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...busing was ignored by the Louisville press. Indeed, before school started the Louisville media had adopted a set of voluntary guidelines which were designed to prevent an exacerbation of tension. The violence occurred when Frank Prell, 34, a modestly prosperous white contractor, was stopped by state troopers in riot gear as he headed across town in his 1969 pickup to visit his mother. Without explanation, they began beating on his fenders with their nightsticks and smashed his windshield. After Prell spun away in panic, he ran through a roadblock of Jefferson County policemen. Two county cops pursued him, and when...
...roughly the same time in Boston, about 500 police in riot gear and federal marshals surrounded shabby Charlestown High School, in the shadow of the Bunker Hill Monument. Armed with a high-powered rifle, a police sharpshooter carefully watched a sullen crowd of whites as three yellow buses unloaded 66 black boys and girls. They showed their student identification cards to school officials, passed through an electronic metal detector that checked for weapons, and walked into the gray stone building. Later that day, a band of 100 white youths rampaged down Monument Street, overturning three Volkswagens, and other angry whites...
...documentary that purported to describe hunting in America. In 90 minutes, Director-Writer Irv Drasnin, a journalist for 15 years but not a hunter, compiled carnage upon atrocity. Black bears were slaughtered at a Michigan garbage dump by tourists with rifles. A gang of rednecks with the latest electronic gear treed a bear, then watched hounds rip it apart. Explained the pack's leader: "We feel that they deserve a chew." A pert stewardess plunked down $500 to "harvest" her first buffalo; then she pointed to the hoofs: "Jim, did I want those for footstools?" In the program...
...shoot down a witness who threatens to "blow the lid off" a rather sensitive government scandal. The exact nature of the disgrace is unspecified, but there is no mistaking Ventura's dedication. He rents a hotel room in the French town of Montpellier and starts unpacking his sniper gear from a specially rigged suit case lined with foam rubber...
...Velasco held up Peru's revolution as a model for developing nations. But at week's end, while filing his story to New York, Hillenbrand heard a brusque announcement over the pressroom television that Velasco had been deposed by a coalition of military leaders. He quickly switched gear from reporting the conference to piecing together an account of the swift coup. "The experience," observed Hillenbrand, "was like Gilbert and Sullivan: a lot of generals running around energetically but, thankfully, no real violence...