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...walked across the street and hit him with something. I don't know what it was. Then the boy was laying on the sidewalk. Mr. Bain was kicking him in the face. He was bleeding about the nose and mouth." Turner said that he also saw Jerome Shaw smash the windows of a car with a pick handle, recounted other scenes of men gone berserk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: I Never Hit Nobody | 6/16/1967 | See Source »

Anochie, angered by arguments which were to him irrevelant, said. "The big club (used by thoughtless whites) to smash such worthy endeavors (such as organizing the Negro potential) is always the same: frantic charges of 'reverse racism,' black supremacy,' and 'black paranoia.'... A sixteenth century English writer (Gerrard Winstanley) once said, 'Everyone talks of freedom, but there are few that act for freedom, and the actors for freedom are oppressed by the talkers and verbal professors of freedom.' However I am confident that the university and campus will come to realize what a meritorious group the AAAAS is, provided they...

Author: By Harold A. Mcdougall, | Title: AAAAS: Negro Students Test Liberalism | 6/15/1967 | See Source »

Shoppers and store workers clawed their way to escalators and exits, blinded by the thickening smoke. Many were trampled in the stampede. Some, like Mme. Seydel, reached windows and managed to escape without serious injury. Others found windows jammed or locked and had to smash through to exterior ledges and balconies; still others clambered to neighboring rooftops. Brussels firemen threaded through the narrow old streets within ten minutes of the first alarm, but helplessly watched many people jump or burn to death before they could raise their ladders or spread their nets. "One man was transformed into a living torch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Belgium: Death in the Rue Neuve | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

...highways and waterways at automobile speeds, even the most powerful could not rise more than a foot above the sur face; the air curtain could not effectively contain pressurized air above this height. As a result, hovercraft could not operate over choppy seas or rough ground, where they might smash into jutting rocks or wave tops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Hovering Closer to Success | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

Anochie, angered by arguments which were to him irrevelant, said. "The big club (used by thoughtless whites) to smash such worthy endeavors (such as organizing the Negro potential) is always the same: frantic charges of 'reverse racism,' 'black supremacy,' and 'black paranoia. . . . A sixteenth century English writer (Gerrard Winstanley) once said, 'Everyone talks of freedom, but there are few that act for freedom, and the actors for freedom are oppressed by the talkers and verbal professors of freedom.' However I am confindent that the university and campus will come to realize what a meritorious group the AAAAS is, provided they...

Author: By Harold A. Mcdougall, | Title: Negro Students' Challenge to Liberalism | 5/31/1967 | See Source »

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