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Soon after the demonstrators arrived at Kenmore Square, police drove them out. At 6:10 p. m. the marchers were dispersed, and only about 400 spectators stood on the side walks in Kenmore Square looking at about 20 police cars and paddy wagons in the square with their blue lights...

Author: By David R. Ignatius, | Title: Protests Erupt Over Invasion of Laos | 2/11/1971 | See Source »

Twentieth century travelers have been struck by a number of things: oncoming cars, other airplanes, mountainsides -and sometimes the vaguely subversive thought that they are scarcely safer now than were 19th century men who took their chances in wagons across Indian country. There might be some intimation of progress in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Friendlier Skies | 1/11/1971 | See Source »

Perhaps Fairbanks can still claim to be on the edge of the last American frontier-it's the largest settlement in the Alaskan interior, the last real town before the roads end, the jumping-off point for the development of the Prudhoc Bay oilfields to the North. There are still...

Author: By William S. Beckett, | Title: Relaxing, Living, Taking Time To Do Things | 12/17/1970 | See Source »

"You'd go to Florida," he said, "and you'd be out of a job. So you'd join up with the minstrel show going north. At least with the circus you'd have a berth-filthy as it was-on a train. With the minstrel show you had to...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: NOTES ON A CELEBRATIONMoon Over Miami | 12/9/1970 | See Source »

The Badge Is Enough. Many black policemen echo Renault Robinson's complaint in Chicago: "The police department is basically concerned with protecting white property, not the safety and well-being of black people." Often the accepted way for a black policeman to get ahead has been to accumulate a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Anguish of Blacks in Blue | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

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