Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Prepared for More. Every cop in the city was ordered to duty, some 1,400 of them sent into the riot area. Under strict orders not to shoot or to use riot trained police dogs, they moved against the mob with billy clubs. Some 150 people, including 35 police, were injured. About 165 rioters were arrested...
...Pago Pago on the Fourth of July, a 400-lb. U.S. construction worker, William C. Brown Jr., better known as Puka (Fat) Bill, was arrested without a warrant for threatening to shoot the Governor. The alleged threat had been made at a private party eleven days before. Held incommunicado for 48 hours, he was charged with violating American Samoa's sweeping civil rights law by "intimidating" Governor Lee in "the free exercise or enjoyment of his constitutional right to life, liberty or property." Possible penalty: three years in jail, a $1,500 fine or both...
Nimbus passes close to the earth's poles instead of following an equatorial orbit as Tiros did, thus covers a new 1,500-mile-wide swath of the earth ev ery 100 minutes. Nimbus can photograph every square mile of earth twice a day; special infra-red radiometers shoot "pictures" of the dark surfaces...
Suddenly Lady Bird spotted photographers on another raft waiting downstream to shoot more pictures. "O.K.," she sighed. "Pass me my lipstick." Now she was Lyndon Johnson's wife again. The First Lady Bird put on a chipper smile, and the cameras went click...
...same place and say, 'Here's two of us this time, if you want to try anything.' " When he landed in Honolulu, newsmen were waiting for him. "Our ships are always going to go where they need to be," he said crisply. "If they shoot at us, we are going to shoot back...