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...Huey goes, the sky's the limit." For almost a year now, the black and white communities of Oakland, Calif., arrayed against each other in uneasy enmity, have heard the words with grim fascination. The threat was made by the friends of Huey P. Newton, the 26-year-old ex-convict who heads the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. And the Black Panthers have caught the public eye as the most extreme of the black extremists...
...told, the league deserved its billing. Compared with the precision and poise of the N.F.L., A.F.L. teams have looked slipshod and sophomoric. Their subservience was under scored in the first two Super Bowl games when the Green Bay Packers handily dispatched the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10 and the Oakland Raiders 33-14. Last year N.F.L. teams trounced the A.F.L. in the first round of interleague exhibition play, winning 13 of 16 games...
...Beginning. Even as the plotted attack on police in Cleveland was increasing white apprehension about law and order all over the country, it seemed to be inspiring black militants to a higher level of bombast. Said Eldridge Cleaver, a leader of Oakland's Black Panthers and author of Soul on Ice, a compendium of bitter autobiographical essays: "It shows that psychologically blacks are not only prepared to die but to kill." Added Stokely Carmichael: "We are only at the beginning of a revolution-the armed stage. We must create the maximum damage with a minimum loss of black people...
...Minoru Yamasaki of Birmingham, Mich., its 110-story aluminum-sheathed twin towers will top the Empire State Building, since 1932 the world's tallest. The steady, disciplined hand of German-born Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 82, soon will show in Washington's pristine, block-long central library. For Oakland, Calif., New Haven-based Kevin Roche has designed a three-tier museum, with the roof of each tier serving as a broad, verdant terrace. Philadelphia's innovative Louis Kahn, whom all architects watch with what amounts to fascination, has such projects under way as a factory for Olivetti...
...Houston). The driving force in the San Francisco office is Charles Bassett, 46, a touseled six-footer who came to S.O.M. from the office of the late Eero Saarinen. He ranges widely in styles, designed the Alcoa building, the Mauna Kea Hotel in Hawaii, and the bare-boned Oakland-Alameda County stadium, which he boasts is a beauty "with no rouge on her cheeks...