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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comes from a Detroit quintet called the MC (for Motor City) 5. After months of rumblings about them in the pop underground, they erupted at Manhattan's Fillmore East. Their performance was less revolutionary than revolting. While the band churned out medium-good hard rock, Lead Singer Rob Tyner scattered obscenities, referred to the audience as "fellow animals" and, while singing I Want You Right Now, writhed on the floor in sexual postures. The group also performed John Lee Hooker's Motor City Is Burning, and there was no mistaking the message...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock: The Revolutionary Hype | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

...munity from civil suits. Eleven of his followers, moreover, have been elected Deputies to Venezuela's lower house so far. Some voters said they voted for Perez Jimenez because in the old dictatorial days, Perez Jimenez' police goons belted the bandits before they had a chance to rob anybody. Under the new democratic regimes, there seems to be more police restraint and crime in the streets, a refrain not entirely alien to the recent U.S. campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Venezuela: The Jolly Green Giant | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

...occasions Cook had a provincial prudishness about prurient talk, though he showed a fondness for admiring native women through his telescope. He insisted that his men wash, but he forbade them to pray (especially when the ship was in danger, as she often was) for fear that prayer would rob them of the will to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Human Endeavor | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

...convict lecturers are from the maximum-security section of the penitentiary, and a few are bank rob bers and murderers. Yet nobody has tried to escape so far. The men realize that one escape would doom the whole program, and they themselves choose the five four-man teams who go - with the approval of prison authorities. So far, the teams have traveled a total of more than 200,000 miles across the state and have spoken to some 750,000 Coloradans. Their message usually goes like this: "I'm on the road to nowhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prisons: Crusading Cons | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

...only interim paper to survive, the Detroit American, fanned the hysteria. Converted from a Polish-language daily to an English one in April, it has built up a claimed 178,500 circulation by concentrating on crime. "Crummy vicious street punks continued to rob and beat pedestrians over the weekend," began a typical story. Another told of a Miami socialite who had learned how to shoot after being robbed four times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: Sullen Settlement in Detroit | 7/5/1968 | See Source »

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