Word: let
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...noon, Student Body President Don Siegal raised the cry: "Let's go down there and take the park." He led a crowd of 1,800 down Telegraph Avenue, straight into a clash with about 300 police. The demonstrators hurled rocks; the cops responded with tear gas. County sheriff's deputies, who later claimed that they had been attacked with steel pipes and bricks, opened up with an antiriot weapon new to the area: twelve-gauge shotguns firing low-velocity birdshot. Four youths on a rooftop were sprayed, two wounded seriously. One lost his spleen, a kidney and part...
...praises of Gaullism. Said Poher: "This daily and insidious propaganda does not bring out the objective truth and reassure citizens." He promised, if elected, to see to it that the network was more evenhanded. The criticism nettled the Gaullist Cabinet of Premier Maurice Couve de Murville. The Gaullists let it be known that "perhaps a candidate is not best placed to judge the objectivity of the network...
...Let us differentiate between two things. You know our position is that war is not imminent. But we have to be prepared also in case we misjudge. We can't risk it. Many people have lost wars in history and many people's countries have been occupied by foreign powers. Our history is much more tragic. Hitler took care of 6,000,000 Jews. If we lose a war, for us that is the last war. Then we are not here any more. If one doesn't understand this, then one doesn't understand our obstinacy...
...away the surprise hit of the year. From Los Angeles to Boston, its bubbling, infectious sound is being aired ten to 20 times a day on Negro rhythm-and-blues stations, easy-listening stations, even rock stations. The LP from which the single was taken, Let Us Go into the House of the Lord, is doing almost as well. "It is good for gospel to go pop," says Hawkins. "It might bring the kids back...
While scoops no longer have the urgency that they did in those days, many of the basic assumptions of journalism have changed very little. The most basic of them all is the primary loyalty of a newsman to his paper come hell or high water. A good newsman will let his grandmother burn if a hotter story turns up across town-or so the Hecht-MacArthur legend has it. Hildy Johnson (Bert Convy) is a classic of his breed, a red-hot superscooper. Suddenly he threatens to do the unthinkable. He tells the boys in the city room that...