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...that Reporter Les Whitten, 44, was to receive some documents taken from the Bureau of Indian Affairs last November, when more than 600 Indians occupied and ransacked the BIA'S headquarters. Sure enough, Whitten's yellow Vega was parked in front of the northwest Washington apartment of Hank Adams, 29, a leader of the Indian coalition whose November caravan to the capital led to the BIA occupation. As Whitten placed a document-filled cardboard box on the sidewalk, three FBI agents handcuffed him and charged him with receiving and possessing stolen Government property. Four Indians, including Adams, were...
...Chicago White Sox activated Hank Allen, the older brothers of superstar Richie Allen. Where did the senior Allen play before coming to Chicago...
...meeting progressed, there was "shouting and screaming and yelling," according to one participant, but Lelchuk refused to eliminate the scene. "Lelchuk, I don't ever want to meet you in an alley," Mailer warned, "because if I do, you're going to be nothing but a hank of hair and some fillings...
...Gene Tenace, the surprise of the Series, boomed his fourth homerun of the five games in the second inning, to put the Athletics ahead 3-1. Tenace's four-bagger tied a record for most homeruns in a World Series, shared by Duke Snider, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Hank Bauer...
From his grandfather and older brother, Prine had learned to play a $28.95 mail-order guitar. Later he moved up to a $217 model purchased with money he earned working as a pew duster in an Episcopal church on Saturday nights. At 14 he began writing songs modeled after Hank Williams' why-don't-you-listen-while-I-tell-you-this-tale-of-woe style. At 24 he walked into one of the coffeehouses in Chicago's Old Town district and sang in public for the first time. "People were very responsive," he recalls. "If they hadn...