Word: van
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tear-gassed on Michigan Avenue. We thought it a minor discomfort to endure while the police attempted to control that frenzied, filthy, foul-mouthed mob of cretins. We watched these "innocents," as you called them, doing their "thing," i.e., overturning police motorcycles, setting fires on the sidewalks, rocking a van containing policemen in an attempt to overturn it, foisting signs in our faces reading "F- the draft," waving the Cong flag as they chanted "Ho-Ho-Ho Chi Minh." Spare me the bleeding heart's account of how they were brutalized. They were a danger to every...
Alexander Barbieri, common pleas court judge in Philadelphia, ordered the investigation last July after a young defendant told him that he had been repeatedly raped by prisoners while on his way to court in the sheriff's windowless steel van. More than 3,000 inmates were interviewed at the city's three penal institutions-the Philadelphia Detention Center, the House of Corrections and Holmesburg Prison. By conservative estimates, says the report, 2,000 assaults took place in the past two years. And once a man has been attacked, he is marked as a target for homosexual advances...
PRUDENTIAL'S ON STAGE (NBC, 9:30-11 p.m.). The first of five original dramas, Certain Honorable Men, by Rod Serling, focuses on U.S. Congressmen caught in the vortex of national politics. The cast includes Pat Hingle, Van Heflin, Peter Fonda...
...Sweet It Is!, nearly all the personnel came out of the tube. Director Jerry Paris is from the Dick Van Dyke show. The writers are out of the Danny Thomas factory. The star, James Garner, was once Maverick. Fair enough; talent has to break in somewhere. But this febrile farce betrays its videosyncrasies wherever it meanders. Garner, a magazine photographer named Grif, finds that he cannot communicate with his hippie dippy son. When the boy decides to tour Europe, his meddle-class mother (Debbie Reynolds) decides to fill the generation gap by taking a house in France for the summer...
...become so bad that many office workers, professionals and young executives are reluctantly moving out to the suburbs, an exodus that bodes ill for the city's struggle to retain its middle-class population. President William J. Molloy of Molloy Bros. Moving & Storage, the largest affiliate of Allied Van Lines in the New York area, reports a 25% increase this summer in families moving out of Manhattan. "Business is so heavy we can't handle it," says Molloy...