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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mercurial writer and organizer who was a founder of S.D.S. Also indicted were Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, leaders of the prankishly absurd Yippies, and Davis, the son of a White House economic adviser during the Truman Administration and an organizer for the National Mobilization Committee. Black Panther Bobby Scale came to the Chicago convention almost by chance. He was filling in as a speaker for Eldridge Cleaver, whose parole board refused to let him leave California. The other defendants are John Froines, an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Oregon, and Lee Weiner, a Northwestern University graduate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: Back to Chicago | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

PARTLY, of course, France's self-doubts derive from the departure of Charles de Gaulle, with his towering figure and lofty rhetoric. The general gave his people visions of glory and grandeur. He prodded them to compete on a superpower scale-as builders of rockets, proprietors of an independent nuclear force, dispensers of foreign aid, and shapers of an all-embracing world strategy. Now comes Pompidou with his promise to turn France into "Sweden, with a little more sunshine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: THE FRENCH FACE MEDIOCRITY | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

They are far from sure that all the study in the world will illumine institutional racism, the Vietnam War, or the arms race sufficiently to show us how to stop them, and they are not at all certain that the time scale on which things are happening will allow the luxury of waiting to find...

Author: By P. ), The City, and (wilson Committee, S | Title: The Overseers Look at Harvard | 9/22/1969 | See Source »

...their own, fear that he may be right. In their understandable haste to obtain geological data before the bidding began, some of the oil companies scarred the tundra with seismic ditches that look from above like giant graffiti and littered it with garbage and empty barrels. Once full-scale exploitation of oil begins, the effects on the North Slope could become disastrous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Resources: Challenge of the North Slope | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

...topography. Besides cratered regions, there are huge, flat, featureless areas like the 1,200-mile-long plain called Hellas. There are also vast expanses of jumbled, chaotic terrain, whose short ridges and small valleys are unlike any features on the moon and do not exist on so large a scale on earth. Concludes Caltech Geologist Robert Sharp: "Mars is definitely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Planetary Exploration: What Mariner Really Saw | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

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