Word: rioting
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...special boots that will enable him to fly by "lifting yourself by your own bootstraps," Black Man, the Soul Wonder of the World, sets out to "rid the universe of poverty, crime and racial bigotry." His arch enemies are Rodent, who breeds on filth and spreads disease; Riot, an immense black gone mad with the craving for destruction; and Narcotics, a heinous figure with hypodermic needles in place of fingers...
...Level. Governor Ronald Reagan has long avoided any California campus, for fear that his presence would set off a riot; but at the height of the current protests, he went to U.C.L.A. and defended President Nixon's war policy. He was greeted not with riots but with jeers. Most Harvard students disapproved when 150 demonstrators once again "trashed" the Center for International Affairs, then scarcely reacted when President Bok promised that the university would help prosecute the vandals. (Conversely, when 40 black students staged a sit-in and hunger strike in Bok's office, he simply moved...
Early in the week, Ackermann proposed that President Nixon be billed for the recent mini-riot in Harvard Square. Her motion, not entirely a symbolic protest, was defeated 7-1. Outraged by this suggestion, two conservative councillors proposed a resolution calling on Ackermann to resign as Mayor...
...Cambridge City Council last night overwhelmingly defeated a motion to bill President Nixon for expenses incurred by the City during the Harvard Square riot and CFIA trashing two weeks...
Ackermann's resolution lacked any literal substance since the Council had appropriated $20,000 earlier in the evening for police expenses in the riot...