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Dates: during 1960-1969
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N.B.A. BASKETBALL (ABC, 5 p.m. to conclusion). The Boston Celtics v. the Warriors at San Francisco...
ROSE BOWL FOOTBALL GAME (NBC, 4:45 p.m. to conclusion). Ohio State v. U.S.C., from Pasadena...
ORANGE BOWL FOOTBALL GAME (NBC, 7:45 p.m. to conclusion). Penn State v. Kansas, from Miami...
...Elizabeth, N.J., after one of the longest and costliest trials in the state's history (16 weeks, $750,000), a jury convicted two Negroes and freed eight others in the murder of Patrolman John V. Gleason Jr. In the midst of the five-day race riot in Plainfield in 1967, Gleason, 39, the father of three, shot and wounded a youth who had attacked him with a hammer. He was surrounded by an angry mob of Negroes and stomped, hacked and shot to death. Sentenced to life in prison were Gail Madden, 22, a 250-pounder, whom witnesses identified...
...attack; in Washington, D.C. Tall and gaunt, with a calm, reasoned tone to his speech, Swing was among the first of the true commentators, not merely reporting the news but attempting to find a meaning in each day's events. His competition in the 1940s was formidable-H. V. Kaltenborn, Edward R. Murrow, Gabriel Heatter-yet Swing commanded at least as large a following and salary (more than $150,000 in 1942), first on the Mutual Broadcasting Network and subsequently on the now defunct Blue Network...