Word: sidewalks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to Allen Rosenberg, attorney for Local 262 of United Electrical, Radio and Machinery Workers of America, Arruda said Rockcastle "propelled her across the sidewalk by a blow to her chest with his elbow" in a picket-line incident on the afternoon of September...
...most Southern whites, blacks were not entitled to normal courtesies. In courtrooms, black witnesses were usually called by their first names or "uncle" or "gal." In some Southern towns, blacks were obliged to step off the sidewalk into the street to make room for passing whites. In some areas they were warned to be out of town by sunset. The few black policemen could not arrest whites...
...been trying to bring the neighborhoods together, and the Square should be their logical focal point," he explains. In July, Smith sponsored a three-day sidewalk sale in the Square, and he plans to organize similar events in the future. "We're trying to dress it up as much as possible...
There was no argument with the well-documented facts. On May 16,1974 near Los Angeles, Symbionese Liberation Army Members Bill and Emily Harris got into a sidewalk struggle with employees at Mel's Sporting Goods Store over Bill's alleged shoplifting. Across the street the Harrises' captive-turned-comrade, Patty Hearst, opened up with covering fire. The trio then fled and switched one after another to four vehicles that they appropriated; in two cases the owners were also taken along. The Harrises conceded all that in their current trial for assault, robbery and kidnaping. What then...
...balmy summer evening, the plaza at Manhattan's Lincoln Center is as cheery a spot as Venice's Piazza San Marco without the pigeons or quite the grandeur. People gaze, mesmerized, into splashing fountains or relax at a sidewalk café, sipping Campari or sucking fruit ice from paper cups. For a change of meter and mood, conventioneers might duck the cacophony of the Garden in exchange for the mellow sounds at Alice Tully Hall, where July is Mostly Mozart time. Unfortunately, with Spain's dazzling pianist Alicia de Laroccha currently in residence, it is also mostly...