Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then came the scavengers, mostly women and older people picking up what they could. It was at this point, as stores were picked bare, that most of the firebombs flared and late-arriving looters tended to get arrested. Thus a Washington survey found that most looters who got bail were mature, jobholding family people, but it did not take into account the fact that three out of four of those arrested were juveniles, and that these were quickly released without charge...
Humphrey, of course, faces obvious handicaps. He is starting late. He has neither the aura of freshness nor the vocal young following that energize the Kennedy and McCarthy campaigns. He must get good marks in opinion polls. He must defend an incumbent Administration's record with little of the leverage and perquisites that an incumbent President automatically enjoys. And, while capitalizing on the Administration's accomplishments, he must overcome the me-too image if he is to attract some of the disenchanted. Further, Humphrey will be a prisoner of events during the coming months. There are primary elections...
...work of the late Boris Vian, an astonishing Parisian who played the trumpet, wrote science fiction, novels and poetry by turns, it was first produced in Paris not long before his death, at the age of 39, nine years ago, and was known here only by name until the Harvard Dramatic Club presented it in a surprisingly good production at the Loeb Drama Center, where it continues...
...major proposals have been under considera on by the Faculty and may be revised before they are sent to President Pusey and the Corporation for final approval in late May, Lee said...
This time Yaz refused to greet the interlopers, but, heeding the Riot Commission Report, rebuffed them only gently. It was too late. As the Park and City police and the dwindling crowd watched in disbelief, the lawlessness, the disregard for property which has convulsed the nation at large, came to Yawkey's Yard. Perhaps a hundred grade-schoolers, led by a spindly-legged eight-year-old girl, spilled onto the field from all directions and advanced on their general like a children's crusade. Yaz backed warily against the Wall, but the worshippers rolled on. Two groundskeepers were dispatched...