Word: hangings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some U.S. politicians have discovered that a better way is to let hecklers hang themselves with their own words. When Robert Kennedy visited Tokyo's Waseda University in 1962, he made a gallant attempt to quiet an anti-American mob by inviting the noisiest of the hecklers to share the microphone. Edmund Muskie, the Democratic vice-presidential candidate, used the same tactic this year with more success. And at a rally last week, Nixon made the best of a sticky situation by giving opponents an opportunity to criticize without heckling. He allowed 1,200 Syracuse University students to sing...
...York City's Mayor John Lindsay calls Joseph Fink "my favorite hippie." The truth is, Fink is something of a square. He does not freak out, sport beads or let his hair hang to his collar. Instead, Fink wears the badge of a deputy inspector in the New York City Police Department. As head cop in the bohemian quarter of Manhattan's Lower East Side, Fink mans a little-known frontier of the law: preventive enforcement. At a time when young nonconformists tend to see cops as oppressors, call them pigs to their faces and even fling excrement...
...leave the field, only to find that he had one more trial to pass-the urine test. Checkups for dope are now mandatory in the Olympics, and for decathlon athletes the tests were given at the end of each day. Because he was totally dehydrated, Toomey had to hang around the stadium drinking liquids until he could supply officials with a urine sample...
Actually, if you hang around long enough "The Experience" can be mildly diverting. The speakers on the north side seem to carry on a desultory conversation and under the footbridge whatever excitement there is, is magnified. However, the project is not concentrated enough to be successful. You soon find yourself watching the more interesting reflections made by the neon lights on Boylston Street...
...confrontation indignation ebbs. Watch that anti-authoritarian hang-up, man. These aren't the days of Babbit, you know. Things have changed. Business is ghetto-bound and groovy and so forth. New managerial elite. They don't discriminate, and if they do, they're sure not going to tell you about it. These are politically sensitive times, after all. By 1970, half the nation under 25, you're a valuable commodity. You know, he's probably going to offer you the job right there. He's going to say you're a nice Jewish boy, just what we've been...