Word: malcolms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...February 21, 1965, Malcolm X, ex-Muslim and revolutionary black leader, was felled by assassins' bullets as he began a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in New York. Fifty weeks after he had broken with the Black Muslims and had begun to emerge from a black nationalist approach to a Third World internationalist approach, he was shot down. Certainly, the fact that he was killed at such a crucial ideological turning point in his life and in the life of the black liberation movement was no coincidence. In commemorating that day ten years ago when Malcolm's life...
...Death. One of his present attorneys, Malcolm Berkowitz, met Kallinger in May 1973, and over the next several months obtained sworn affidavits from the three children in which they recanted their original testimony. Berkowitz claims that the children were prepared to withdraw the charges against their father shortly after making them but that the police officers who took the charges down threatened to send the children to a detention home if they went back on their story. With the affidavits claimed as new evidence, Berkowitz in November 1973 asked for a new trial for Kallinger, a motion that the judge...
...campaign song. After 16 years of Republican rule in the state, a Democratic candidate was finally putting back together the old Roosevelt coalition of labor, liberals and minorities. So successful was his political surgery that Carey enjoyed a triumphant 3-to-2 victory over his hapless G.O.P. opponent, Governor Malcolm Wilson...
...jinks in the 1960s and even tried going straight, as the producer of Rosemary's Baby. Shanks, however, is a return to true form. It is awful. There are no technical stunts in the movie, but there is one rather flabby device: the hero, a puppeteer named Malcolm Shanks, is a mute. Since he is played by Marcel Marceau, he is also a mime and really requires no words. The plot, which is crusted with mold, involves a fantasy in which Shanks dreams of a spooky old house (not the one on Haunted Hill, however), a nice...
...Hugh L. Carey (D-N.Y.), receiving broad-based popular support, won a landslide victory over incumbent Governor Malcolm Wilson last night, as Democrats took control of the state house for the first time in 16 years...