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...Negroes and whites sympathetic to the Panthers' aims gathered for outdoor memorial services for Bobby Hutton, the two policemen wounded at the outset of the affray on 28th Street were in good condition and one had already been able to leave the hospital. San Diego's Panther Leader Kenny Denmon said the shooting had spurred his group to switch from political organizing to procuring guns. Speaking from a flatbed truck at the ceremony, Actor Marlon Brando, a Panther supporter, vowed to "do as much as I can to inform white people that time is running out." Specifically, Oakland...
...outset of the meeting, Fairbank skillfully frustrated an effort by some participants to shut down the Caucus. The dissident elements made repeated charges that the Caucus was "illegitimate" and "conspiratorial." Fairbank calmly refuted the charges, and when the argument erupted into violent exchanges, he sobered the audience by stating simply: "Gentlemen, shut...
...rookie Del Rossi was shaky at the game's outset and Navy jumped to a 3-0 lead Harvard's hitters then erupted for seven runs in one inning. Del Rossi steadied and blanked the Middies the rest of the way for his first varsity triumph...
...outset, few of the volunteers were excited by McCarthy's prospects for success or ignited by his deliberately low-voltage campaign style. Yet his refusal to harangue crowds or play the demagogue ultimately generated a subtle student-professor relationship. At the same time, McCarthy demanded hard work and personal self-sacrifice from his young workers, many of whom had been supporters of Robert Kennedy. To escape the hippie image, miniskirted girls went midi, and bearded boys either shaved or stayed in the back rooms, licking envelopes or compiling address lists to the accompaniment of muted Beatle music...
Claudio Buchwald plays the Author at Quincy House, a self-pitying sort who is trying to piece together a melodrama of murder, poverty, and lust from a collection of uncooperative protagonists. At the outset Anouilh has the courtesy to apologize, though the Author, to Pirandello. After that, Buchwald is left to intervene periodically as the play drifts out of his control. He does so with reasonable skill, although his expression of unrelieved anguish and his habit of passing off fidgeting as unease begin to wear after a while...