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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whole area. As soon as a group of more than 50 people gathered at any street corner the cops gathered to meet them. First three or four motorcycles would arrive. Then the tear gas would be hurled. Then the cycles would sweep down the sidewalk. The object was to scatter the crowd and disperse them. If the kids had stayed together and marched either toward the White House, seven blocks away, or into the nearby ghetto Washington might have gone up in smoke...

Author: By Thomas P. Southwick, | Title: Marching For Inanity | 11/20/1969 | See Source »

...somewhat akin to a laying-on of hands, she has been backing Robert P. Moncreiff, a former Rhodes Scholar and like her, CCA and a Republican. With this vote, Moncreiff seems to have a pretty good chance of election. The old Goldberg vote, on the other hand, will probably scatter; some may go to James W. Caragianes (Ind.) who, like Goldberg, draws a lot of support in Mid-Cambridge; others will flow towards School Committeeman Daniel J. Clinton (Ind.) who, with this new support and an old base of votes from his School Committee races, may make it onto...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: Cambridge Council Race | 11/3/1969 | See Source »

Pennsylvania has never beaten the Crimson in a dual meet, and usually, never comes close. The Red and Blue put up a challenge last fall, but watched a deep and talented Harvard squad scatter it all over Cemetery Hill in a 17-44 triumph. This year. Penn will challenge again. and this time it has a squad that could knock the Crimson...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Runners Meet Tough Pennsylvania, Long Triumph Streak In Jeopardy | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

...past two months, however, Kuala Lumpur's food stalls have closed early and the street crowds that usually mingled pleasantly now scatter for cover at any unusual sound. In the wake of bloody race riots that may have claimed 2,000 lives, Malaysia's peoples have bro ken little bread together; they have probably broken any hope for multiracial harmony for many years to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Malaysia: Preparing for a Pogrom | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

Many in the city fear that when the Block falls, its residents will simply reestablish themselves all over town. "If the bulldozers come, the Block will scatter just like the whores do," said a veteran nightclub owner, Maurice Cohen. "They'll move upstairs and downstairs with you." To prevent such an occurrence, civic leaders have given thought to transplanting the entire Block onto a showboat, or a nearby pier, or, possibly, onto a rat-infested island known as Fort Carroll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE CITY: REQUIEM FOR THE BLOCK | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

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