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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...apprehensive, I agonized over my ability to behave like a policeman, in the sense and to the degree that all policemen must behave like policemen. But the first time I was put out on the street by myself-for sixteen hours of traffic direction the day of the Kent State-Cambodia demonstration last spring. I found that the uniform did half my work or me. People look at you, think you're a policeman, and you are. On the day of that relatively benign assembly. I was one of scores of rookie policemen who rapped and took our lunch breaks...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: Up Against the Wall Erratic Glamour in a Cops and Robbers World | 3/26/1971 | See Source »

Died. Rockwell Kent, 88, noted artist and acerbic Socialist; in Plattsburg, N.Y. Poet Louis Untermeyer called him "not a person at all, but an organization." His first small success came in 1914 as an illustrator; Kent incorporated himself, sold shares in Artist Kent, Inc. and headed for Alaska. The resulting art was so successful that he bought the outstanding shares in himself and dissolved the corporation. His mature works, especially illustrations for volumes of Shakespeare, Melville, Whitman and Chaucer, have become collectors' items. An admirer of the Soviet Union, he had his passport revoked in 1950; when the Soviets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 22, 1971 | 3/22/1971 | See Source »

...Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department has recommended against holding a federal grand jury investigation of the four shooting deaths at Kent State University last May, the Washington Post reported yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Federal Jury On Kent Killings, 'Post' Discloses | 3/22/1971 | See Source »

Berkeley, Kent State and Illinois State have each recently promulgated codes laying new emphasis upon responsibility. The American Association of State Colleges and Universities has also toughened its faculty responsibility requirements, suggesting that disruptive acts are "the antitheses of academic freedom." Next week the prestigious Carnegie Commission on Higher Education will recommend that standards similar to those of the First Amendment be applied to academic freedom. Such standards protect freedom of speech, belief and association-but not conduct that violates the rights of others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Limits of Academic Freedom | 3/15/1971 | See Source »

Nosal, defending champion in the 35-pound weight, took fifth place in the event Friday afternoon with a throw of 61-7 1/2". Ken Shatterman of Kent State won the event and set a new national collegiate record with a throw...

Author: By E. J. Dionne, | Title: Nosal Takes Fifth in Shot At NCAA Meet in Detroit | 3/15/1971 | See Source »

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