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...them hostage behind a barricade of mattresses, bedsprings and chairs until their grievances were heard. After city and prison officials heard the complaints-overcrowding, filthy cells, guard brutality -the hostages were released unharmed. But the next day 800 other dissidents continued the disruptions. With growing fury, the rebels hurled tin cups, plates, pipes and anything else they could wrench from their cell walls. After seizing four of the building's twelve floors, they smashed 3-in.-thick glass windows and tossed chairs and garbage to the streets below. The melee was finally brought under control the following...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: The Black Hole of Manhattan | 8/24/1970 | See Source »

...demand major ones. "The white press," Williams says, "so thoroughly indoctrinated King and his people with the idea that the capitulation of the bus company [following the Montgomery, Ala., boycott] was a victory for the blacks that they believed it; believed, too, that other things would inevitably fall like tin soldiers, all in a neat line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opinion: Posthumous Pillory | 8/17/1970 | See Source »

...Merve Griffin for the 34th time last week, and has played Caesars Palace in Vegas with Frank Sinatra. She has a big three-octave range and reaches high C with ease in Johnny One Note. Like Karen, Julie belongs chronologically to the Woodstock Nation, but her spirit lies in Tin Pan Alley. Their repertory is mostly golden oldies, and so is their following. "Adults dig me better than kids," says Julie, though she adds: "My parents are not ready for me." Her father, vice president of a bottling company, is not awed by her $80,000-plus income, she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Awake and Sing | 7/27/1970 | See Source »

ONLY a few years ago, much of the earth still seemed as desolate and inaccessible as the moon. Now the wastes of Antarctica have been surveyed and found replete with coal; modern cities are sprouting in Siberia. Roads penetrate Africa's rain forests, leading to lodes of tin, bauxite and uranium. Arabian deserts are crisscrossed with oil pipelines; even the ocean depths may soon be farmed and mined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Great Land: Boom or Doom | 7/27/1970 | See Source »

Rebirth is the great Alaskan lure: the state is full of escapees from the crowds and pressures of the "Lower 48" states. The frontier spirit is implicit in dozens of fetching place names: Big Fritz, Mary's Igloo, White Eye, Tin City, Hungry, Cripple, Stampede, Eureka, Paradise and Purgatory. It is clear in the state's forgiving customs. There is no death penalty, for example, and if a first-time murderer is a man, he rarely spends more than a few years in prison. For a woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Great Land: Boom or Doom | 7/27/1970 | See Source »

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