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Delegates to the five-day meeting, 2,000 strong, ranged from Trotskyites to Maoists, from bearded antiwar pro testers to barefoot poverty workers. Their slogan : "Don't Mourn for Amer ica -Organize!" Martin Luther King urged that next year's elections be turned into a "referendum on the war" - and Pediatrician-Protester Dr. Benjamin Spock declared his willingness to head the ticket. Such ambitions were quickly doused in a power grab by 400 militant Negro delegates...
Last month Orton made a five-day trip to Leicester to see his father, a gardener. Unlike the old days, he left his friend behind. When he returned to London, Halliwell was waiting. According to the coroner's jury report, Halliwell waited until Orton was asleep, then clubbed him on the head at least nine times with a hammer. After that, Halliwell swallowed "an enormous overdose" of barbiturates and curled up nude close to his lost friend's body. It was, ruled the jury, a "deliberate form of frenzy." So, in a way, was Orton's funeral...
...flabbergasted. I couldn't see land. Nothing. I could see the other parachutes going into the water." A passing boat rescued Coy and Bernard Johnson; two other chutists delayed their drop in order to jump from a still higher altitude and landed safely on the ground. A five-day search turned up ten bodies including one woman. The other six were presumed drowned...
Last week, after a five-day rainfall that saturated the so-called "Golden Heart of Alaska" with more than six inches of rain, the 200-ft.-wide Chena spilled disastrously over its banks and deluged Fairbanks. Floodwaters swirled through the state's second largest city at depths up to 9 ft., inundating cars, lapping at second-story windows, crumbling foundations. Before the rains abated toward week's end, some 15,000 of Fairbanks' 30,000 residents were homeless. At least seven, including two in the flooded village of Tok 200 miles to the southeast, were dead...
...Newark cab driver whose arrest last month on a traffic charge ignited a five-day riot there sued police for $700,000, claiming that they beat him with fists and nightsticks. Cabbie John Smith (TIME cover, July 21) filed suit against the two arresting officers and, for good measure, Police Director Dominick Spina and Chief Oliver Kelly, charging "they failed to properly train and supervise" the Newark force...