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Lemmer's story was a major factor in the arrest of six members of the V.V.A.W. in July 1972 on charges of conspiring and crossing state lines to incite a riot (subsequently, another vet and a civilian ally were also charged). Denying the charges, the defendants insisted that the arrests were purely political, designed to embarrass the leadership of the veterans and prevent their legal anti-Nixon demonstrations at the convention. Now the case of the "Gainesville Eight" has come to court as the latest -and possibly last-of the celebrated conspiracy trials of recent years. Those often traumatic...
...technical effects-see the re-released Mary Pop pins, or even 1971's Bedknobs and Broomsticks-are Still wondrous, but the stage waits between them can turn a kiddie matinee into a squirming riot of befuddled restlessness...
Newport-New England. Now the Newport Jazz Festival used to be held at Newport. But three-four years ago, after George Wein started inporting people like Led Zeppelin to punch up the gate, they had a riot. Nice one, too. About 7,000 stone broke hippies came rolling off the hill overlooking the festival site and rolled clean through the one chain link fence separating themselves from wall to wall music. At which point they clashed with the paying customers and much mangling of flesh ensued. So now they hold the festival in places like the Sheep Meadow and Fenway...
...less tedious than those recent summers spent nervously following the riot potential in the black community. But it is, in many ways, quite similar to those summers. The hearings, like the riots, are a violent means of exposing criminal conditions which have been allowed to exist for too long...
...work's appeal came in May of 1849, when on the same evening in New York City there were three simultaneous productions, starring three eminent Macbeths of the time--William Charles Macready, Thomas Hamblin, and Edwin Forrest. These performances led to what has become known as the Astor Place Riot--the worst fracas in theatrical history, besides which even the celebrated free-for-all in Paris at the premiere of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring seems pale. At the final tally in New York, 31 persons were killed and more than 150 injured. Such is the incredible power of Macbeth...