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...violence of the black mobs that roamed through such ghettos as Liberty City and Brownsville, wielding torches and firing shotguns and pistols, terrified not only the whites who had been accidentally caught in those neighborhoods but also the police who rushed into the area trying to restore order. Declared Marvin Dunn, a black psychologist at Florida International University: "I've never seen anything like it. In the 1960s people got hurt because they got in the way. But in this riot, people have set out to kill white people...
...players say this would crimp their prospects on the free-agent market. Certainly the need to surrender proven quality in exchange for open market talent would inhibit many acquisitive owners. But Players Association Executive Director Marvin Miller insists that the game has benefited from interest in high-priced stars. Says Miller: "In the years since free agency, baseball has set four straight records for attendance, gate receipts and TV revenues. Now they say we have to agree to go backward...
...Vancouver for $35. Great stuff for train buffs, the book gives departure and arrival times for more than 9,000 rail trips worldwide, with specifics about en route scenery and service (on the Peking-Shanghai run an acupuncturist is available), as well as advice on tour planning. Authors Marvin L. Saltzman and Kathryn Saltzman Muileman even log the World's Longest Train Ride, an 8,000-mile odyssey from Lisbon across Siberia to Khabarovsk that officially takes 218 hours and on the Saltzman and Muileman trip was only 2½ hours late...
...pleasure and an honor," agrees Marvin Washington, a 6-foot, 5-inch forward...
...Lookout Mountain Hill, a mudslide destroyed two houses and left the $1.25 million mansion of famed Divorce Lawyer Marvin Mitchelson tottering on the edge of a cliff and in danger of being washed away by the next storm. He was resigned to losing the house, which engineers doubted could be saved. He quipped, "I can live in my office, I can practice law in the courthouse and I don't see my wife much anyway...