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...dust." In the '30s they sat on flagpoles, danced marathons, leaned on WPA shovels and attended Pink meetings. In the '40s they ate live goldfish and carried books to avoid carrying rifles. In the '50s they staged panty raids, crowded 18 into five-passenger cars, burned rubber and played chicken. In the '60s they let their hair grow, smoked pot, read poetry in the rain, went nude. In the '70s, to top their forebears and get attention, they could only throw bombs...
...oven was apparently ignited when a youth dropped a match on a foam-rubber chair. Flames quickly licked up the grottoes and spread to the ceiling. In a matter of moments, molten sheets of plastic dripped down on the crowd, setting tables, chairs and clothing on fire. Only three men-the club's co-owners -had keys to the emergency exits, and two of them died in the flames. Because there was no telephone, Bas ran to his car to notify the fire department instead of opening the doors. Twenty patrons escaped by leaping over the club...
...riots in New York City, St. Louis and elsewhere. This year postal employees have gone on strike for the first time in history, city workers have stomped off the job in Cincinnati, and tugboat crewmen and gravediggers have struck in New York. Municipal employees in San Francisco and Atlanta, rubber workers in Akron, and teamsters across the country?all have walked out. In this year's first nine months, the U.S. lost 41.5 million man-days through strikes, up 32% from the equivalent period last year...
EXCEPT for the unmistakably modern odor of tear gas and burning rubber, the southern Italian city of Reggio di Calabria could have passed for one of the fortified city-states that made up Italy before the nation was unified 100 years ago. For most of the week, towering barricades of tree trunks, paving stones and junk sealed the city off from the outside world while nearly 5,000 armed police and carabinieri laid siege to it. At one point, two columns of cops in full riot regalia, spearheaded by bulldozers and a construction crane, charged into a district that...
Indiana is a basically conservative state with two remarkably liberal Senators. Hartke's main advantage is his campaign technique which is tireless and personal. This year he faces an opponent whom he calls "a faceless rubber stamp for the Administration." But he may find that that is what the voters in the Hoosier State want...