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...overflow crowd of 800 in Lowell Lecture Hall alternately hissed and cheered speeches last night by Mark Rudd of Columbia SDS and Deitrich Wessel of the German...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: Columbia Film, Rudd Get Mixed Reception | 9/28/1968 | See Source »

...firemen will also be on the grounds round the clock to answer special calls. The memory of last year's multimillion-dollar holocaust that gutted the modern McCormick Place convention hall-it probably would have housed this year's convention-is still painfully fresh. If mass arrests overflow the Cook County Jail, officials are prepared to put prisoners in tents in the jail yard. While the candidates trade charges on whether the convention is open or closed, it is, physically at any rate, the tightest in U.S. history-a kind of Stalag '68. Already the demonstrators have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: STALAG '68 | 8/23/1968 | See Source »

...each allied effort to dig out attacking Communist ground units cause fresh destruction and new refugees who stagger from the shattered homes, clutching meager possessions, dragging or carrying tearful, terrified children. Hospitals are packed-some 4,800 civilians have been treated for wounds since early May and refugee centers overflow under the tide of the more than 160,000 people made homeless in the past six weeks. Schools have been closed for weeks. Many youngsters wear metal identification tags or bracelets, in case they are lost or found dead or wounded. Barbed wire coils around some homes, sandbag prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Saigon Under Fire | 6/21/1968 | See Source »

...Negroes can no longer be crumb beggars at the white man's table," ex-heavyweight champion Muhammed Ali told an overflow M.I.T. audience yesterday. "The so-called American Negro has reached the point where he should no longer look to his slave master for economic assistance or social identity...

Author: By Joe Whitaker, | Title: Negro Must Not Beg Says Muhammed Ali | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

...appearances in Los Angeles tied up traffic on the Hollywood Freeway for hours. He drew an overflow crowd of 12,000 at Brigham Young University in conservative Utah, even though campus authorities declined to cancel classes for the occasion. In Lincoln, Neb., he attracted the biggest political audience (12,000) since Dwight Eisenhower stopped there 16 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Travels With Bobby | 4/5/1968 | See Source »

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