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...plaintiffs spoke at a May 5 memorial service protesting the invasion of Cambodia and the killings at Kent State University. The suit alleges that police made photographs and wrote a surveillance report on the event and entered them into a dossier it maintains on the plaintiffs...
...Nosal, the defending champion in the 35-pound weight throw finished fifth in the finals of the 1971 NCAA National Indoor Track Meet in Detroit yesterday morning. Nosal had a strong throw of 61'7", but he was unable to overcome a classy field which was led by Kent State's Al Schoterman. Schoterman, a 230-pounder, hurled the weight 68'101/4", breaking the old collegiate record by more than three feet...
That is only the beginning. According to Promoter Jerry Perenchio, who approached 70 possible backers before he got Los Angeles sportsman Jack Kent Cooke to put up the bulk of the purse money, 300 million spectators in more than 26 countries will see the fight. A successful theatrical agent who cheerily admits that "I really don't know the first thing about boxing," Perenchio is not missing a trick; after the bout is over, he hopes to auction off the fighters shoes, trunks, robes and gloves "If a movie studio can auction off Judy Garland's red slippers," he says...
...Face it, Sammy Four-Eyes, you're scared. Want me to get you out?" A superwoman, no less! But it didn't seem like the time to argue, and so I played an obedient Clark Kent to her Lois Lane. Three big whacks and two little nudges with her brick-filled book bag and we were at the Jolly Green Giant, a health-food pub, which, despite its name, does not discriminate against small, nongreen people...
...evidence that the government is acting in bad faith. Last May 4, several thousand demonstrators at Washington University in St. Louis marched to the Air Force ROTC building, which some of the demonstrators entered and lit on fire. When firemen came to put out the fire, the demonstrators, chanting "Kent State, Kent State," tried to push them back, even when the firemen came accompanied by the police...