Word: marked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Viciousness. When it was all over, two Panthers were dead, and of the seven others in the apartment, four were wounded. One officer was wounded. The dead were Illinois Panther Chairman Fred Hampton, 21, and Mark Clark, 22, a downstate leader of the party. The following morning, in a similar raid, ten Chicago tactical-unit cops burst into the South Side apartment of Panther Deputy Defense Minister Bobby Rush and seized a pistol and some ammunition. This time the apartment was empty, and there was no shooting...
...stock market, December opened as anything but the accustomed month of year-end price rallies and fat Christmas bonuses. The Dow-Jones industrial average has plunged 70 points in less than a month. Last week it broke below the 800 mark, at which all earlier slides in 1969 had been stopped. It closed at 793, the lowest level in nearly three years. For investors who had put their faith in some popular blue chips, the story was even glummer. During the week, General Electric stock sold at its lowest price since 1963; Union Carbide was the lowest since...
...Over the Rainbow will be more fondly familiar to Americans than the sight of the Cowardly Lion in his boxer's stance, hopefully spluttering "Put 'em up. Put 'em uuuup." Bert Lahr played the lion, of course, and like all his performances, it bore the mark of a unique talent. Most comedians rely principally on their tongues, and Lahr's scratchy voice, wobbly warble and gnong, gnong, gnong earned their share of laughs. But his very special gift was a capacity to turn body English into a complete, expressive grammar of feeling. From his bulbous nose...
...temporary suspension named five students specifically Mark D. Smith '72, Lesley F. Griffin '70, Roderick J. Harrison '72, Bruce L. Smith, a graduate student, and Bennie Lee Carter-" and all other students participating in this obstruction...
...flight up to Mrs. Murray." As I climbed the winding stairs, a dark-haired woman, olive-skinned, appeared from a decaying red-carpeted, red-furnished living room. She came out so quickly I was taken aback. Cynically. I wondered how many months, it had been since the last likely mark had wandered...