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Died. Edward Boehm, 56, wildlife sculptor whose exquisite porcelain birds grace museums and galleries around the world, including the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, to which he donated a 90-piece collection worth $104,000; in Trenton...
...Trenton, N.J., the state's superior court reversed the 21½-to-3-year conviction of Playwright LeRoi Jones for carrying guns during the 1967 Newark riot. Jones claimed that Newark police planted two guns in his car. Without deciding the dispute, the three appeals justices ruled that Essex County Judge Leon W. Kapp gave a "devastatingly improper and fatally unfair" charge to the jury. Kapp had also sentenced Jones to 30 days in prison for contempt after the playwright reacted to a ruling from the bench with what the judge termed "an epithet descriptive of excrement." The superior...
...Gisela Bolte of the Time-Life Bureau in Bonn; O-Kie Kwon of Dong-A Ilbo, Seoul; Yoshihiko Muramatsu of the Tokyo Bureau of Hokkaido Shimbun; Harald Pakendorf of Die Vaterland, Johannesburg; and Pedronio Ortiz Ramos of The Manila Chronicle. The Editorial Page Cartoonist was George Amick of The Trenton Times...
...finally arrived, he didn't have time to shake hands with all the people who had been waiting, but he thanked them for being there and hoped that they'd come to the rally downtown. With that he went to his car and the small motorcade started off into Trenton...
...rally in Trenton was at the Civic Center, a dirty red brick building from around 1890 that now stands in front of a great expanse of bull-dozed wasteland covered with crab-grass and bits of broken pavement. The auditorium had about 3000 people in it when Wallace arrived, and the seats were arranged in a square with no one in the middle and no one behind the speaker's platform. This arrangement is designed to cut down on the risk of assassination, and also to reduce the contact between Wallace's supporters and the hecklers, who had turned...