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Most of the protesters, who sat in groups near police barricades and in the middle of the financial district's busiest streets, went limp when police approached. Officers dragged demonstrators by their arms or carried them on stretchers to waiting buses and paddy wagons...

Author: By William E. Mckibben and James L. Tyson, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSONS | Title: Police Arrest 1002 Anti-Nuke Protesters At Wall St. Rally | 10/30/1979 | See Source »

Demonstrators will not forcibly resist arrest, although many plan to "go limp" making it harder for city police to remove them...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Protesters to Sit In At Stock Exchange | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...remembered pains. His parents broke up when he was very young, and he grew up as the loneliest boy in North Bergen, NJ. "You remember that kid," he says. "You probably beat him up a few times." He got attention by being funnier than anyone else around, managed to limp through school, then slide unhappily through a semester at New York University in Manhattan. He broke into television at CBS News, and then moved west in 1965. Soon after, he developed the concept for Room 222, which was then produced by Allan Burns. The two formed a team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Rhoda and Lou and Mary and Alex | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...cops are coming again, but you don't get up, you just sit there. They reach the edge of the circle, and hesitate a moment, and the singing goes on and they move in. One of you gets picked up by a pigtail and tossed. Another, who goes limp, is clubbed until his hand is fractured and he is rolled down the hill. The glasses are ripped off one of you, and your eyes are sprayed with Mace. They kick and they shove and they are strong, and then everybody is retreating and every available water bottle is above somebody...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: A Weekend at Seabrook | 10/10/1979 | See Source »

Hilarious Associates, vacant Resort, limp Lightning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The 1979-80 Season: II | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

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