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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Orders were issued to close off every main road to the airport for one hour-commercial passengers notwithstanding -during the Pope's arrival. Police even arranged to have all commercial air traffic for that day rerouted so it would not fly over any New York City streets or buildings that were on the papal itinerary...
...grand jury for manslaughter, defined in Alabama as killing "intentionally but without malice." State Attorney General Richmond Flowers took over the prosecution, announced that he would seek a new indictment for murder. Last week, before Circuit Judge T. Werth Thagard, Flowers requested a postponement of the manslaughter trial. His main argument: the state's key witness, Morrisroe, was still hospitalized and too ill to testify. Thagard denied a postponement...
Activity by the main rebel group, the National Liberation Front, which operates out of nearby Yemen, had been on the upswing ever since August. It was then that a London conference to prepare plans for a South Arabian federation, which is due to gain independence in 1968, broke down in disagreement.* On Aug. 29, a British police superintendent was assassinated, the eleventh Briton to die by rebel violence in the past 21 months. Two days later Sir Arthur Charles, the British Speaker of the Aden Legislative Council, was shot and killed as he was leaving his tennis club at sundown...
Merchant Seaman Gerald Gormley was practically dead on arrival at Detroit's Receiving Hospital. While fighting off street-corner hoods, he had been stabbed in the back, and the knife blade had slit right through his descending aorta, the main artery that carries blood to the trunk and legs. He was losing blood so fast that his heart stopped beating while he was on the operating table. Though surgeons managed to sew up the aorta and got his heart pumping once more, seven months passed before Gormley left the hospital...
When Britko drinks, Kadar places a rum glass before the lens; when Britko wakes up, the camera moves slowly along the ceiling and wall and finally up his legs, coming into focus with exquisite timing. Soon the audience becomes vicarious inhabitants of Britko's village. We walk down the main street behind Briko as he tips his hat to friends; we stop to hear an old fiddler play a bitter-sweet tune; we cringe when a Nazi dragoon marches...