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Although considered stronger in the lighter weights, Springfield "doesn't have anybody very weak," Lee said. The Crimson will be relying on Bob Panoff at 191 and John Imrie at heavyweight...
...Washington, D.C., an assistant high school principal tried to stop three teen-agers from robbing the school bank; they shot him dead. In New York City, a high school chemistry teacher stepped into the hall to investigate a disturbance; three youths squirted lighter fluid on his clothing and set him aflame. In San Francisco, helmeted police dispersed teen-agers from the grounds of Mission High School after violence had flared between black and Spanish-speaking students for six successive days. In Hamden, Conn., seven students were arrested for participating in a racial brawl in the high school cafeteria...
...review of 1968's mail, TIME'S letter writers found that it was largely concerned with the more serious news-Viet Nam, the capture of the Pueblo, politics at home and abroad, student protest, urban unrest, assassination. In other years, readers seemed more concerned with lighter stories. In 1967 the article that drew the most mail was the cover story about Playboy's Hugh Hefner; in 1968, it was the cover that reported on the violence at the Democratic Convention in Chicago...
Before the joint session of Congress, Borman urged continued support of the space program beyond the moon landing. "Exploration is really the essence of human spirit," he said, "and I hope that we never forget that." In a lighter vein, he described the Christmas Eve reading from Genesis and a particularly "historic" accomplishment: "We got that good Roman Catholic Bill Anders to read from the King James version." Then, looking down at the Supreme Court Justices seated in the House chamber, Borman had an afterthought. "But now that I see the gentlemen in the front...
...full shot of a family dinner, and Nicholas Ray's Bigger Than Life is recreated; Karloff's monologue recalls Welles' in Mr. Arkadin as surely as we recognize Strangers On A Train when the sniper's ammunition falls just out of reach (shades of Bruno and the cigarette lighter...