Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Homosexuals are getting the same rough treatment. Police question strollers in city parks, gathering places for homosexuals. Recently, cops halted cars at night in Piedmont Park and photographed startled occupants for police intelligence files. Solicitor general's agents are also roving photographers these days; raiding a theater showing Andy Warhol's Lonesome Cowboys, they snapped pictures as customers-including a minister-were marched...
...sense of statues or obelisks, they were things that attain monumentality through constant use: a toilet float that rises and falls with the tide on the Thames River in London, a gigantic pair of scissors to replace the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., a huge windshield wiper for Grant Park in Chicago, a melting Good Humor bar to replace the Pan Am Building in New York. Nor are all the monuments big. The most poignant, in fact, is the smallest-a fallen hat for "a London street" to commemorate Adlai Stevenson...
...numbering between 300 and 600, suddenly charged into the streets, throwing bottles and sticks, after a 7 p.m. rally in Lincoln Park. Many had come prepared with helmets, leather jackets, hard boots, and sticks...
Moments later, the demonstrators stormed out of the park, throwing bottles and sticks through windows along Clark St. They cut across on Goethe St. to State, marched two blocks and then confronted about 20 policemen, blocking the intersection. The police fired tear gas; four demonstrators were arrested; two policemen were beaten...
Police were circling the area in unmarked cars and motorcycles. Following the recommendations of the Walker and Kerner Reports, police maintained minimum visibility and maximum numbers. They did not mass in sufficient numbers to stop the mob, which had apparently surprised the police by fleeing quickly from Lincoln Park...