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...statement, saying that "to speak of 'a police riot is to distort the history of those days in August. The world knows who the rioters were." Commander Ronald Nash, who headed a force of 135 police during the convention week's most violent confrontation outside the Conrad Hilton Hotel, said of his men: "They were beautiful. They conducted themselves as professional policemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chicago: The Blue Curtain | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

...During most of the traumatic week of the convention, a Los Angeles police inspector who was present as an observer thought that "the restraint of the police, both as individual members and as an organization, was beyond reason." But of the Wednesday night battle in front of the Conrad Hilton Hotel, the same official said: "There is no question but that many officers acted without restraint and exerted force beyond that necessary under the circumstances." As his policemen went out of control that night, the deputy superintendent in charge had to pull berserk officers off battered and bruised demonstrators, shouting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: CHICAGO EXAMINED: ANATOMY OF A POLICE RIOT' | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

...report makes it very evident that the well-known "fog of war" hung heavily over Chicago. The violent struggle in front of the Hilton Hotel, which was televised around the world, apparently resulted from lack of communications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: CHICAGO EXAMINED: ANATOMY OF A POLICE RIOT' | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

...jets to take off with passengers from Jose Marti Airport, and it takes time for the airline involved to ferry over a substitute prop plane. Passengers meanwhile are billeted either at Jose Marti Airport or at one of two good hotels: the downtown Havana Libre (formerly the Havana Hilton), or the Varadero International, located 35 minutes out of town but convenient to Varadero Airport, from which your prop plane will depart. Depending on your accommodations, here is what to expect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: What to Do When The Hijacker Comes | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

...inspired Herman Melville, who is quoted in the text, and Charles Darwin, who found in the ecology there the laws of natural selection that led to Origin of Species. It is to be hoped that Eliot Porter's fine pictures will not conjure up thoughts of a Galapagos Hilton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Christmas Shelf: Bigness and Beauty | 11/29/1968 | See Source »

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