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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hall for his speech. Instead, he broadcast it into a large square in which both his followers and large groups of right-wing antagonists gathered. Fights broke out between them. As Lambrakis left the hall, he was clubbed on the head by someone on the back of a passing truck, and later died. In the investigation that followed, a scrupulously honest judge (a freak phenomenon in Greece), discovered that city officials had hired Lambrakis' murderer. A whole network of conspiratorial right-wing generals and government officials was rounded up and indicted for murder...

Author: By Theodore Sedgwick, | Title: The Moviegoer Z at Exeter St. Theatre indefinitely | 1/23/1970 | See Source »

...saved. I went to the Esquire Theatre to see Black Velvet, a low budget stag that cost maybe forty fifty dollars in which Julie (Kim Alison) uses her behemoth body, cleverly concealed throughout in layers of underwear and oleo, to buy enough social mobility to climb from a truck stop waitress job to the high dive of the Las Vegas Starlite where Brad her boyfriend is shooting stills of her ample thighs and immense copacabanas. And everyone in the theatre was a 64 yr old Man with jowls like pink cumulus clouds, sitting by himself, including the older Jew from...

Author: By Richard D. Rosen, | Title: Found Poems A Short Cultural History of Salt Lake City | 1/12/1970 | See Source »

...group tinkered with the knobs themselves and worked at do-it-yourself recording pretty much when and as they pleased. Recently, they walked out of a guest appearance with Glen Campbell because they could not do it live?Campbell wanted them to sit on barrels in a pickup truck and silently mouth songs to their own recorded music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Down to Old Dixie and Back | 1/12/1970 | See Source »

...Harvard employees and radical students band together to form what they call a "worker-student alliance." A truck driver from B and G walks off the job with his sleeves rolled up, and slams WSA organizer Jared Israel on the back saying. "We've always been sold out by company unions: the students are our only true allies...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: The FutureTea Leaves and Taurus | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

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