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Hickel defended his program of "Parks to the People" several times as one step toward improving the urban environment. The plan provides Federal money to create "pocket parks" and pedestrian malls in urban downtown...
...other blacks who were selling the party newspaper; since the publication is Newton-controlled, the Cleaver wing has proscribed it. Webb tried to stop the men from hawking it, but three of them drew guns and fired at him. Within moments, Webb lay dead on the sidewalk. In his pocket was a card identifying him as a "deputy field marshal" of the Black Panther party...
...blacks. Under Young, the League helped 54,000 blacks find jobs; it and its affiliates raised or funnelled $45 million into such practical programs as its street academies for high school dropouts and its job-training facilities in 100 cities. "Pride and dignity come when you reach in your pocket and find money, not a hole," Young argued...
...pilots pushed the Cobra into a steep dive. Before they pulled up-at about 500 ft.-Walters had fired two pairs of 2.75-in. rockets into enemy positions. Diving again, Hayden let go with his 7.62-mm. minigun against a pocket of North Vietnamese caught in the open near the perimeter wire. Terrified, the Communists scattered back into the tree line, leaving 15 bodies on the ground. There was another strike, then another and another, until Hayden had expended his entire 2,500-lb. load of ordnance. By noontime, he was back at Khe Sanh to refuel, rearm and wait...
...Hollywood legend that drove Aldrich to finance this rather special film out of his own pocket-and which also served as a basis for its companion piece, Wilder's classic about a has-been movie star (Gloria Swanson) and her old director (Erich von Stroheim)-may indeed be made of tinsel. But, like the Mafia and major-league baseball, the movie industry undeniably has its own special fascination. Don't pass up Lylah Clare and Sunset Boulevard just because they give largely irrelevant views of the human condition; rather, see them because they come very close to making kitsch look...