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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stood vigil on catwalks overseeing the entire arena. There was even talk of putting men in subterranean service areas. Employees of the amphitheatre, the neighboring Stock Yard Inn and major hotels were all checked for security. Police from coast to coast were asked to inform the FBI as lead ing protesters left for Chicago...
...malodorous was the air surround ing the Bishop Processing Co. near Bishop, Md., that nausea forced a federal official to flee the area before he could read his Scentometer. Spreading from the plant was the pungent smell of rendered chicken heads, feet, feathers and entrails. Southerly breezes wafted the odor across the state line to the town of Selbyville, Del. After Maryland's efforts to assert control failed, Selbyville citizens began a movement that eventually persuaded the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare to sue Bishop under the 1967 Clean Air Act. The smell of the processing plant, they...
Aghast, his father wangled a job transfer to Michigan and told Burt that his next school would be an Eastern board ing school. Burt laughed in his father's face and disappeared for three weeks. When he returned, it was to announce his enlistment in the Marines. The fam ily now lives in Michigan. Burt is a pfc. in Viet...
...Evening News recently, he observed that people go to the Indianapolis 500 to see not a sport but "a blood event embodying the two principal characteristics of our time: swiftness and violence." In another report, he berated San Franciscans for back ing a bond issue to build a new sports stadium instead of channeling the money into public housing and job opportunities. On the day of Robert Kennedy's death, he refused to report the baseball scores on his nightly New York newscast. He explained: "When people view outlet, escape and entertainment...
...Opry is a big favorite in the penitentiary circuit. "We bring the prisoners a ray of sunshine in their dun geon," he says, "and they're not ashamed to respond." Furthermore, "they feel I'm one of their own." That is because Cash, lean and tough look ing at 36, sings with granite conviction and mordant wit about sadness, pain, loneliness and hard luck. Though he is not an ex-con himself, his empathy with jailbirds is a natural extension of the at titude expressed in his songs, that life both in and out of prison...