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...their hardware included flamethrowers, presumably stolen from the army. Some of the university's green-roofed buildings were set ablaze, and conservatives later claimed that 47 of their number had been "barbarously killed." At one point, trapped for three days in the physics building, they dashed off a telegram to Mao detailing the carnage and pleading for his help. Elsewhere in Canton, the two rival factions staged the Cultural Revolution version of "chicken": lining up some 20 military vans in two rows, they roared toward one another and collided head-on in a tangled heap of metal. Those...
...purpose expletive "Phooey!" On occasion, Maddox applies it personally to irksome political critics and statehouse correspondents ("Phooey on you, phooey on you, and phooey on you!"). Last week Atlanta Attorney James H. Moore and a band of reporters hatched up their revenge with something called a "Phooey-gram," a telegram sent directly to Maddox bearing nothing save the sender's name and one word-"Phooey." Already hundreds of Phooey-grams have been wired to the capitol, and Moore plans to kick off an entire Phooey campaign, complete with Phooey buttons, Phooey bumper stickers, and even a sky writer...
...fastest men on the draw in television are neither the Matt Dillons nor the Sergeant Fridays but the network executives in Manhattan. Their weapons are the staff memo, the telegram to Washington, and the press release...
...defense, Stanton's telegram pointed out that social scientists have not established that there is a "causal relationship between the fictional portrayal of violence in the mass media and any increase of actual violence in American life." But that may be beside the point. What seems to disturb the majority of the nation's 180 million viewers is not the conclusions of sociologists, but the fact that the horrors of war, assassinations and riots are real enough; why bludgeon TV audiences with variations on violence...
...Kennedy lived for 25 hours and 27 minutes after being shot on a cruelly elongated Wednesday that the nation is likely to remember in the context of that Friday in 1963. Of all the words last week, some of the most poignant came from Mary Sirhan, who sent a telegram to the Kennedys. "It hurts us very bad what has happened," Mrs. Sirhan said. "And we express our feelings with them and especially with the children and with Mrs. Kennedy and with the mother and the father and I want them to know that I am really crying for them...