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Bruck reported from the Court House early this morning. He said that the troopers broke down the first-floor doors with a three-foot battering ram. He said that the troopers pushed the demonstrators up front and then beat several of them with clubs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Raid Sit-In at Dawn; 250 Arrested, Dozens Injured | 4/10/1969 | See Source »

Pauley and Reagan didn't manage to ram the plan through at the Regents' last meeting in Los Angeles. Pressure from the chancellors delayed any conclusive decisions. But the plan is still poisonously healthy, and the Regents will have a chance at it again soon. Perhaps the chancellors' squawking will convince the Californians that the backlash at Sacramento has gotten out of hand. Reagan has gone over the brink, and he might drag the whole UC system down with...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: A Little Balance | 3/26/1969 | See Source »

ARIES-The Ram, Mar. 21-Apr. 19 (Governs the head) Mars, Pluto- rulers of the 1st house Positive: Enterprising, incisive, spontaneous Negative: Impatient, impetuous Career: Pioneer, architect, soldier

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Modern Living: Mar. 21, 1969 | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

...assistant maitre d'hótel, who was shaking Kennedy's hand at the moment he was shot and was the first to grab Sirhan. He had described the shooting to the grand jury as "very deliberate." Two of Kennedy's companions, former L.A. Ram Lineman Roosevelt Grier, who wrestled with Sirhan, and Decathlon Champion Rafer Johnson, who knocked the pistol from his grasp, should be on hand, as well as Author George Plimpton, who also joined in the fray. When the time comes for them to recall their movements, the prosecution will produce a scale model...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: Behind Steel Doors | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

...Economists, but more sparingly. He believes that the Democrats have thoroughly mismanaged the economy, particularly by relying too much on changes in tax rates to "tune" the state of business. The current 10% tax surcharge helped convince him that tax increases are not only difficult to ram through a constituent-minded Congress but usually have slow effects when finally enacted. "We are beginning to realize," says McCracken, "that fiscal policy is simply not available to us in the real world to influence short-run changes in business activity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Nixon's No. 1 Economist | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

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