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...patrol commander squeezed off some warning shots, most of the Mafiosi melted into the mountain woods. The rest, taking cover behind rocks or in the scraggy Calabrian underbrush, opened up with pistols, shotguns and hunting rifles, wounding seven cops and taking two injuries of their own in a half-hour firefight. When it was all over, the police gathered up a sackful of weapons, 35 cars that had been abandoned on goat paths, and 21 gunmen aged 19 to 75. But the pezzi grossi (big shots) got away...
...mood shifted. North Viet Nam's Prime Minister Pham Van Dong released a letter to the U.S. peace movement that concluded: "May your fall offensive succeed splendidly." "It was too good to pass up," says White House Communications Director Herb Klein. Nixon summoned Vice President Spiro Agnew for a half-hour meeting, after which Agnew told the press that the M-day leaders "should openly repudiate the support of the totalitarian government which has on its hands the blood of 40,000 Americans." For the protest impresarios to ignore the Hanoi letter, said Agnew, "would bring their objectives into severe...
...crowd was so massive that many could not see the speakers' platform. The natural amphitheatre at the Beacon and Charles St. corner of the Common was jammed with demonstrators a half-hour before the speeches began at 3:40 p.m. And even when the speeches began, the last marchers had not yet reached the Common...
...home movie projector and screen. When perfected, the SV converter will be able to play movies, operas, lessons-or even deliver an audio-visual TV magazine. RCA hopes to begin marketing the first SV adapters in 1972 for a retail price of "under $400." Six-inch cartridges, providing a half-hour of color programming, would initially cost about $10 apiece but could be rented for far less...
...were cruising along, as only a bus can cruise, on West Side Drive or some other such road in the Bronx. but then traffic jammed and we spent most of the next half-hour sitting still with a good view of the Hudson River and the trash along the banks. Breath-taking. But the inside of the bus was really stale. Here we were sitting in the middle of traffic with foul air hanging all over the bus- and Mr. Fair had stopped talking. The thought of running a big race had to be the most disgusting idea to these...