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...parole violations. -- JAMES EARL RAY, convicted assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., was sentenced to 99 years in prison. He escaped briefly in 1977 and continues to maintain that he was framed by the FBI. -- DAN ROWAN, cohost of Laugh-In, died in 1987 of lymphatic cancer. -- MARK RUDD, Columbia University student radical, spent 7 1/2 years as a fugitive with the radical Weatherman. He now lives and writes in Albuquerque, N. Mex., where he is an active opponent of U.S. policy in Central America. -- BOBBY SEALE, cofounder of the Black Panthers, studies and teaches at Temple University in Philadelphia...
...system of a global generation. The theme of the protests, and of the generation, was . . .what? To challenge authority. To change the world. To announce itself: Power to the imagination! Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre declared the upheaval "the extension of the limits of the possible." At Columbia University, Mark Rudd, a scion of Corporate America, borrrowed an epigram from the street poet LeRoi Jones (now Amiri Baraka): "Up against the wall, motherf*****, this is a stickup...
...taking two course in which attendance is mandatory, and registering [today] could have caused me to miss lunch," Jeremy B. Rudd '91 said...
...youth of the world's atomic age came to a sort of critical mass in the spring of 1968. Nineteen days after King's assassination, students at Columbia University began occupying five buildings on the campus and held them for almost a week. Mark Rudd, a Columbia junior with a gift for confrontational theater, led an "action faction" of S.D.S. He wrote an open letter to University President Grayson Kirk, which he closed with a line from LeRoi Jones: "Up against the wall, m, this is a stickup." With some of the student movement's talent for converting disrespect...
...morning viewers, CBS has never even won a battle. From the day in 1954 when Walter Cronkite and a puppet lion named Charlemane went up against Dave Garroway and J. Fred Muggs on NBC's Today, through the late '70s and early '80s, when such CBS heavyweights as Hughes Rudd and Charles Kuralt were battered by ABC's Good Morning, America, the network rarely finished higher than last place...