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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outset of the affray on 28th Street were in good condition and one had already been able to leave the hospital. San Diego's Panther Leader Kenny Denmon said the shooting had spurred his group to switch from political organizing to procuring guns. Speaking from a flatbed truck at the ceremony, Actor Marlon Brando, a Panther supporter, vowed to "do as much as I can to inform white people that time is running out." Specifically, Oakland's volatile Negro youths are shortening their tempers. On a wall of the house where Bobby Hutton died, one youngster had scrawled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Shoot-Out on 28th Street | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

...accident; in Moscow. At the time the fourth Russian to win a Nobel prize in physics (for his theories on :he behavior of matter at low temperatures), "Dau" also helped his country develop nuclear weapons and contributed to the Soviet space program. In 1962, his car plowed into a truck, leaving him with such severe injuries that he was in a coma for 57 days and clinically dead on four occasions. Eventually he recovered enough to say, "I can talk to friends, but I do not have the courage to resume other activities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 12, 1968 | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

Their fall from grace indicates that Mao and Lin are under mounting pressure from the regime's comparative moderates, who want to get China back on course after the excesses of the Cultural Revolution. Chief among them is Premier Chou Enlai, a pragmatist who holds no truck with the Cultural Revolution and himself barely escaped the Red Guards' condemnation. Chou recognizes the practical necessity of compromise to hold China's 750 million people together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Purges on the Left | 4/5/1968 | See Source »

Fathers & Sons. If the government felt disposed to redress any grievances, there was no sign of it in Warsaw. Police turned a water-gun truck and tear-gas launchers on the mob, waded into its midst with rubber truncheons and hustled some 300 off to police headquarters. At least six students accused of being ringleaders got jail sentences of four to six months. To prevent a spread of violence to factories, the government transported busloads of workers to antiprotest rallies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: The View from Headquarters | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

...most improbable of auto accidents, a two-tire wheel assembly detached itself from a trailer truck on the Long Island Expressway and smashed into a limousine carrying Gary Grant, 64. The accident mashed the priceless Grant nose, bruised his expensive ribs, and dispatched the actor for nearly a week's stay at St. John's Hospital, where he shared a semiprivate room with the limousine's driver. Also hospitalized: Gratia von Furstenberg, 23, a cousin of Actress Betsy von Furstenberg, who was accompanying Grant to the airport to see him off, and wound up at St. John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 22, 1968 | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

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