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...side. A large group of Negroes clustered in terror alongside the brick school building; with measured malevolence, three troopers lobbed three canisters of gas in their midst. At one point, an eerie silence enveloped the field, punctuated only by what sounded like men kicking footballs; it was the hollow clunk of cops kicking and clubbing fallen marchers. A white woman, her blue dress streaked with mud and grass stains, stumbled over to a platoon of blue-shirted city cops. "How could you be so cruel?" she sobbed. "Don't you know I'm a human being?" "Lady," snickered...
Some American diplomats still favor a policy of reform and democratization. It was, for example, Ellsworth Bunker, U.S. Ambassador to the OAS, who convinced Bosch to run once more for the presidency. But the American military continues to bolster all those Dominican interests which would make a Bosch victory hollow. And the State Department exerts little effort to disguise its support for Dr. Balaguer, the conservative candidate in this election...
...High Dam and the Soviet-sponsored projects, Kosygin was largely the unsmiling inspector general from the home office. He was received well enough-except in one exchange with an unseen underground Egyptian worker at the dam site. Peering into a 100-ft. hole, Kosygin was startled by a hollow cry from within: "Long live Nasser! Long live Gamal!" Then, as an afterthought, "Welcome, Kosygin...
...promise of "Peace and Quietness" proved as hollow, as the students' stomachs. The Great Rebellion of 1768, incited once again, by the low quality of college food, also lasted for a month, and proved equally fruitless...
Addressing an audience of 100 in Kirkland House dining hall, Aptheker charged that modern American society is founded upon abstractions--power, money, growth, expansion--that are fundamentally hollow, Social ills, such as poverty, bigotry, and water pollution, he continued, refute the myth of American prosperity and show the state of a nation based on a "parasitic relation to peoples who are underdeveloped because they have been over-exploited...