Word: pinney
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Inside the building, the reinforced police rushed the door. James C. Pinney '67, who was with the mothers, said the police were "wielding billy clubs and shouting 'kill'em'" as they tried to break up the group of demonstrators who had gathered in front of the doors. Other policemen clashed with another group, including Pinney, who attempted to join those in front of the door. A third group of policemen broke through the crowd outside to reach the entrance. In the shuffle, police crashed through the glass doors...
...Grove Hall. Hundreds of people, attracted by the arriving squad cars, had gathered in front of the welfare office before the police began to move. According to men who were outside, the crowd was agitated but peaceful until a mother shouted out the window about the beatings inside. Pinney and John M. Mendeloff '68, who was also inside, reported vicious beatings as the police attempted to clear the building. "The cops suddenly came out wanting to fight, swinging and cursing at the Negroes," they said. One teenager was thrown through a window...
David B. Ansen of Beverly Hills, Calif. (English); Richard C. Backus of Goffstown, N.H. (English); Paul P. Hamburg of Great Neck, N.Y. (History); John A. Lithgow of Princeton, N.J. (History and Literature); James C. Pinney of Madison, Wisc. (Social Relations); Richard P. Rogers of New York (English); John M. Ross of New York (Social Relations); Christopher St. John of Weston, Mass. (History); Robert J. Samuelson of New York (Government) and David M. Schiller of Lynbrook, N.Y. (English), and Howard M. Slyter of Portland, Ore. (Social Relations...
...whose first bid for public office took both rank-and-file Republicans and Democrats by surprise. Also surprising was the unanimity mustered at the party convention, which nominated him by acclamation. Though Nutmeg State Republicans have been notorious for factional feuding in recent years, State Republican Chairman A. Searle Pinney was quick to spot Gengras' potential and, with other party leaders, quietly started lining up the dissidents weeks before the convention...