Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Excessive police violence is by no means a thing of the past. No fewer than three Negroes were killed by police during the month of August. In no case was the victim said to be armed with more than a knife, or evne, where he did have a knife, to be close enough to the policeman to have used it. Some policemen have garnered reputations as slayers of Ne- groes, and one cop has placidly referred to a colleague as "Killer...
...good too. To the population of Page, Ariz., assembled to witness the dedication of the 710-ft. Glen Canyon Dam, Lady Bird Johnson last week recalled "those disfigurements of rocks and trees where someone with a huge ego and tiny mind has splashed with paint or gouged with knife to let the world know that Kilroy or John Doe was here." But the beautification drive, she went on, "is a new kind of 'writing on the wall'-a kind that says proudly and beautifully, 'Man was here...
...exactly nothing and who finally proposes to Annerose a commitment she finds compelling. "What else does beauty need," he asks, "but the chance to be destroyed?" What, indeed? In a scene involving some of the sickest psychology since Sade, she invites him to mutilate her breasts with a carving knife...
...press gallery above, Political Columnist Stanley Uys of the Johannesburg Sunday Times watched the messenger elbow his way through milling Assemblymen and approach Verwoerd. "I thought he was going to pat Dr. Verwoerd on the back," said Uys. "I thought he was being excessively familiar. Then I saw the knife...
...city's most influential editorial writer; Stanley Woodward ran the best sports page in the business. The city editor was that celebrated Texan Stanley Walker, whom many consider the alltime champion in that trade. Walker issued just two ukases: "Do not betray a confidence, and do not knife a comrade." But he could make some pointed suggestions. A correspondent whose copy lacked enough punctuation once received a full typed page of commas. And in his book, City Editor, Walker wrote, "Pick adjectives as you would pick a diamond or a mistress." Some argue that Walker was outdone...