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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just can't be relaxed," one sophomore said. "You run around looking at your watch, and I don't like living that way. You just have to live by the bus schedule...
...America Alive" finally got under way, the American Experience on the half-shell, Dr. Joyce Brothers analyzing the five by satellite live from New York. A man in a Bozo the Clown outfit wandered in off the midway to watch. Photographers clicked, including one from Time who was repaying a favor to a friend on Paris-Match. He said he hoped they wouldn't credit him. The A.P. photographer was snapping away, grumbling. "I'd rather be out coverin' civil rights marches, shit. Or a convention--them Kennedy people taught me how to buy a convention. Nineteen-sixty, there...
...media event was over. That night they would open the Southeastern Fair amid Joie Chitwood's auto thrills show, greased pig contests, the rest. Forty-one dates in 17 days, the beginning of a tour that will go around the world, include major motion pictures and, hopefully, Carson. They came out as a smoke machine smoked--"Rock and Roll Heaven," don't you understand. Hazebrouck/Croce sang "I Got a Name". Women swooned for Bolt/Elvis. He ran out of scarves to give them. There were 75 people in the audience, and they were knocked dead. And the next morning...
...ONE YEAR AGO Tuesday, a young man named Steve Biko died in a South African prison. Biko was a man of some stature in the black community, known for his intelligence and his deicated work against apartheid through the Black Consciousness Movement. Realizing his popularity and the damaging publicity that could result from his jailing, the South African police told the press that the cause of his death was suicide--the result of a hunger strike, complicated by a fall from a chair that fractured his skull...
Levich served as head of the department of electrochemistry at Moscow University until 1972, when he applied for a visa to emigrate to Israel. After applying, Soviet authorities fired him from his teaching job, and forbade him from conducting research or publishing his work. One of his two sons entered a Siberian labor camp in 1973, but has since been released...