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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...absolutes they betrayed. His bottom most affinities lay not with his liberal and youthful supporters but with the judges and cops whom he enraged. He shared that rage in a sense and dreamed of vindication in their eyes and desperately believed that the Law would give him a fair shake...

Author: By Willy Forbath, | Title: The Re-Making of Lenny Bruce | 7/5/1974 | See Source »

Elsewhere in the world, beacons flickered, shot off sparks, were extinguished and flared out again. In Thailand, students struggling for democracy toppled a military dictatorship. Korean students rose in an effort to shake theirs. In Greece, the indomitable courage of students and workers undeterred by repression and torture brought down one dictator, though a more efficient one took his place. The ten-year independence struggle of Portugal's African colonies sparked revolutionary change within Europe's oldest dictatorship--change that isn't over yet, but whose unexpected depth and growth is testimony to the survival of people's love...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Greater and Lesser Crimes | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

Elsewhere in the world, beacons flickered, shot off sparks, were extinguished and flared out again. In Thailand, students struggling for democracy toppled a military dictatorship. Korean students rose in an effort to shake theirs. In Greece, the indomitable courage of students and workers undeterred by repression and torture brought down one dictator, though a more efficient one took his place. The ten-year independence struggle of Portugal's African colonies sparked revolutionary change within Europe's oldest dictatorship--change that isn't over yet, change whose unexpected depth and growth is testimony to the survival of people's love...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Melodrama and Tragedy: 1974 | 6/13/1974 | See Source »

...defending national champ eight of cox Nancy Hadley, stroke Alison Hill, seven Allison Hall, six Wiki Royden, five Jenny Getsinger, four Katie Moss, three Connie Cervilla, two Judith Ames, and bow Marie Adams will undergo a minor shake-up for the race. Baker has straight-rigged the boat, changing it from the German rig he employed all season...

Author: By Andrew P. Quigley, | Title: Radcliffe Journeys to Oakland To Defend National Crew Title | 6/10/1974 | See Source »

...adopted a bitchy, initial-cluttered style ("What was Miss P.P. doing with Mr. V.V. at... ") that earned her many enemies. Later the scourge of Celluloid City dropped the initials and developed a more serious reportorial approach. In the past few weeks, for example, she has reported on management shake-ups at Screen Gems and the William Morris Agency, and interviewed the husband of a woman with whom Richard Burton recently had an affair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Guide to Syndicated Survivors | 6/3/1974 | See Source »

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