Word: placed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...message of brotherhood and peace, are censored and canceled. Mission: Impossible, which follows and which regularly displays the violence and lack of human feeling we all deplore, is allowed to continue. Either the CBS censors have been watching the wrong program or compassion and humanity are to have no place in the Sunday CBS schedule...
...first time, is a mystery. Governor after governor had turned down Licavoli's pleas for clemency. Rhodes himself had done so in 1963, telling the prisoner: "It is impossible to disassociate your recent good conduct from the extended criminal conspiracy that brought about your imprisonment in the first place." For years, reports have flourished that Licavoli's Mafia friends would pay at least $250,000 for his release. In announcing the commutation, Rhodes took pains to observe that an investigation he ordered found "no evidence of such payment or promises." But LIFE quotes former officials, including ex-Governor...
Bogside, where 5,000 Catholics live, is a squalid slum of crumbling two-story buildings jammed into a valley that was once an enormous swamp. Its poverty-encrusted homes are forever damp, and a veil of smog coats the area. It is a place where the city's mostly Protestant police "do what they like," say sullen residents. This night they did, using batons and water cannons furiously in the narrow streets, as the Bogsiders fought back ferociously. Bricks ricocheted off buildings or disintegrated shop windows. Petrol bombs bounced and flared in the glass-shard-littered streets. One crowd...
CALKINS was also grossly out of place on the interlocking-directorate charts that some radical students had prepared to show how the Corporation dominates American business. Calkins' only tangible business involvement was his role as director of a Rhode Island manufacturing company. He later said he took the job to help a friend whose company was in trouble...
...want to influence the nation's policy, Rogers told Calkins, move away from the centers of power. Go to a place where there's a relative vacuum, and make a name for yourself...