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...school started the Louisville media had adopted a set of voluntary guidelines which were designed to prevent an exacerbation of tension. The violence occurred when Frank Prell, 34, a modestly prosperous white contractor, was stopped by state troopers in riot gear as he headed across town in his 1969 pickup to visit his mother. Without explanation, they began beating on his fenders with their nightsticks and smashed his windshield. After Prell spun away in panic, he ran through a roadblock of Jefferson County policemen. Two county cops pursued him, and when Prell refused to pull over, one fired three...
...have to use the helmets, but Chicago Bureau Chief Benjamin Gate, Correspondent Richard Woodbury and Photographer James De Free all encountered overt hostility in Louisville: when a group of angry citizens recognized Woodbury as a reporter, they tried to run his car off a back road with their pickup truck; De Free was the target of a bottle-throwing demonstrator...
Aside from the blurring of sex roles, perhaps the most obvious aspect of the male gay culture is its promiscuity. Some men have quick, anonymous and furtive sex in the men's rooms of public parks, subway stations or college buildings. Others seek nightly for partners in established pickup areas. In Lincoln, Neb., they cruise near the Governor's mansion; in Arlington, Va., near the Iwo Jima memorial. In the Fens and "the Block," in Boston's Back Bay, homosexuals run the risk of getting badly beaten and even killed by roaming gangs who are out to get them. Most...
...been hit by a car and was taken to the first aid post in the Santiago railroad station in the custody of DINA agents. According to the smuggled prisoners' report, however, a month later a witness saw DINA agents run over Guajardo's legs with a pickup truck in the courtyard of the José Domingo Cañas detention center...
...equipment. Food processing enjoyed a 33% rise, mainly because lower costs for sugar, wheat and shortening fattened profit margins. Another pleasant surprise: General Motors reported net income up more than 400% above the first quarter, and 8.8% ahead of a year ago, on the strength of a long-awaited pickup in its car sales. American Motors also showed a healthy increase: net income rose to $10.1 million, v. a $47.8 million first-quarter loss...