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KPFT Manager Larry Lee figures, without much hope, that the station's future depends upon the capture and stiff sentencing of its assailants. But in its adversity, KPFT has won new and widespread supporters of its own. The Houston Post ran an editorial condemning the sabotage as "a throwback to barbarism reminiscent of the book burning of Hitler's Germany." The Post has also offered a $1,500 reward for evidence leading to the arrest and conviction of the culprits...
Cambridge dons and students protested Maudling's decision, while the Times of London, in a throwback to its earlier reputation as "The Thunderer" declared, "It is a shabby and unworthy decision, timorous, insular and morally wrong." Dutschke, who suffered an epileptic seizure apparently as a result of the excitement, last week appealed the decision. If opinion continues to run in his favor, the Tories may well back down rather than risk offending the British concept of fair play...
...sounded at first like a throwback to the Depression days of Bonnie and Clyde: three men and two women, with guns blazing, making their getaway from the Brighton branch of Boston's State Street Bank and Trust Co. with $26,000 in stolen cash. Patrolman Walter A. Schroeder, 42, a hero cop and father of nine, tried to head them off- only to be cut down and left dying by a burst of gunfire. When the police were able to piece together what had happened last week, the bank heist appeared to be a bold and bloody new departure...
...Throwback? Then Goldwater dispatched a second letter, repeating his objection and this time threatening to make "trouble" for the State Department in Congress. Finally Rogers backed off. Last week the State Department announced that, "in light of all considerations," Olsen will remain in his present job on the European bureau...
...York Times called the Olsen affair "a throwback to McCarthy-type repression." It was not that by any means, but because of a personal vendetta, Goldwater was allowed to exercise a veto to which he had no legal or privileged right, and a man well qualified for a job was denied...