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...Roxbury section of Boston, Wednesday, September 21, 1981. Nine days before the D.C. conference, just outside Dudley Station, a small card table was set up. It was late afternoon, the sky was overcast and a strong wind kept blowing the "Register to Vote" sign over the table. Nevertheless, a constant stream of people all Black crowded around to sign up. As the subways screeched on the tracks overhead. Russell Williams, a Boston coordinator of Operation Big Vote, briefly interrogated each person: "Have you ever registered before?" "Where do you live?" "Do you want to be registered as a Democrat...
...drizzly overcast morning last week, a radio loudspeaker snapped out the order to attack. Through the stinging mist of CS pepper gas dropped by Viet Nam-style helicopters, yellow-clad troopers set off a barrage of rifle fire from atop 30-ft. prison walls. More than 500 officers-armed with shotguns, rifles, pistols and clubs-charged into the crowded compound, shooting as they ran. Sporadic firing continued for nearly an hour. When the one-sided battle was over, lawmen representing the State of New York had killed 26 convicts and nine of 38 hostages that the inmates had seized...
...rained, however, both literally and figuratively on the school's parade. Overcast skies detracted from the week's closing ceremonies, and the upbeat sentiment at the festivities was dampened by a report that federal auditors charged the Med School with owing the U.S. government as much as $1.7 million in research funds they say the University mismanaged and poorly documented...
...trim, perfect vessel, 412 ft. long, glided into overcast San Diego Bay a bit ahead of schedule after a five-day sail up from Mexico, and the regiment of photographers onshore nudged into position. Cannons roared from the escort frigate Diomede, and a U.S. battery returned the 21-gun salute. After Her Majesty's Yacht Britannia steered toward the freshly painted yellow moorings of the Broadway Pier, her Royal Marine band played, then a U.S. Navy band. Suddenly the craning crowd of 6,000 broke into unbuttoned cheers, while several hundred reporters looked on. There were even scattered choruses...
...Harvard men's tennis team barely broke into a sweat Saturday afternoon in overcast Philadelphia, surely wishing they were on the sunny banks of the Charles instead of on the courts against a hapless Pennsylvania squad...