Word: takings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN. Woody Allen makes his debut as a film director. He also co-authored this zany crime flick, and plays the starring role of a crook. What's more, he makes it all work...
...Bill Moyers, once L.B.J.'s press secretary; Lawyer Roswell Gilpatric, Deputy Secretary of Defense under Robert McNamara; and Banker J. Sinclair Armstrong, an Assistant Secretary of the Navy in the Eisenhower Administration. Children in the New York City public schools were allowed to stay home if they chose to take part in the Moratorium. In certain cases, the protest movement assumed ludicrous proportions: the West Side Montessori nursery school in Manhattan announced that it would close for the day to join the protest...
...support for the Moratorium seemed to be shaping up with more force than there had been any reason to expect. Gordon Sherman, head of Midas-International (auto parts and mobile homes) and chairman of Chicago's chapter of the Business Executives Move for Viet Nam Peace, encouraged employees to take part in M-day; his group planned a silent hour-long vigil of executives, heads bowed, at Chicago's civic center. Girls from Barat College of the Sacred Heart, a small Catholic school, agreed to pass out antiwar leaflets on Chicago commuter trains...
...demonstrations caused Governor Richard Ogilvie to mobilize 2,600 National Guardsmen, neither the demonstrators nor the efforts of less militant S.D.S. groups succeeded in disrupting the trial. Members of Revolutionary Youth Movement II, one of the more moderate of the S.D.S. factions, found themselves outnumbered when they attempted to "take over" Cook County Criminal Court Building. They had to content themselves with predictable speeches to a generally indifferent audience before heeding police instructions to move on. Even the elements seemed to be against the Weathermen. A downpour washed out another attempt to hold a rally in Lincoln Park, scattering demonstrators...
...Harvard runners tied for first place. John Quirk. Tom New. Marshall Jones, George Barker. Mark Connolly. and Rick Engelbrecht each finished at 12:42. The time was only 14 seconds off the record for the 2,5 mile course, despite the orders to take it easy towards the finish. Tied for seventh at 13:40 were Jeff Brokaw. Pete Kernahan. Bob Collazo, Bob Clayton, and Frank Prior...