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Another radical who adopted a strategic decorum in court found that it paid. Last October, Brian Flanagan, 23, a New York City carpenter, was arrested in the thick of the Weatherman "Days of Rage" in Chicago. He was charged, among other things, with aggravated assault against the city's assistant corporation counsel, Richard Elrod, who had been paralyzed from the neck down in the street fighting...
...hostages were released unharmed. But the next day 800 other dissidents continued the disruptions. With growing fury, the rebels hurled tin cups, plates, pipes and anything else they could wrench from their cell walls. After seizing four of the building's twelve floors, they smashed 3-in.-thick glass windows and tossed chairs and garbage to the streets below. The melee was finally brought under control the following day; the prisoners were promised an official investigation of jail conditions. Remarkably, only two injuries-both minor -were reported...
...tobacco manufacturers' displays on Billy John's log-cabin porch to discuss their craft. Don Snyder, 22, the Mississippi State University student who has held the distance crown for two years, explains that it takes time "to get your juice right. It can't be too thick or too thin. You've got to just chew for about an hour and not drink or eat anything and get your mouth adjusted to it. Then it's slick and smooth and just comes out easy...
...face is familiar, but the melody -well, it just isn't right. Up on the stage of Los Angeles' the Now (formerly Cocoanut Grove), a nightclub thick with the ghosts of potted palms and a thousand big-name bands, Diana Ross makes her electric entrance, shimmering like a Broadway sign. She sports a frizzy Afro wig about the size of a boxwood hedge and a sequined sarong that looks as if it were cut from the Orion constellation. That's not the only star trip this lady is on. She seizes the microphone and leans into...
...happened. Bombardments, raids, and finally, a massive expedition of 50,000 troops crossing the thick layer of ice atop the Finnish Gulf to take back the fortress from the insurrectionists. The rebels blow gigantic holes in the ice, and hundreds of loyalist troops drown in chilling graves. The expedition's survivors bludgeon their way into the city, defended by 15,000 men, and there is fierce hand-to-hand combat raging in the city's homes and streets. Then a silence, and it is over, some of the sailors fleeing across the ice to Finland and the rest on their...