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During the riot, all of the windows in Headquarters East were broken, the door was torn from its hinges, and extensive looting took place. Altman said that the looting stopped only after a group of Harvard students formed a protective ring around the store to drive off the looters...
...rough and tumble world of professional basketball, survival is often the name of the game. Early this season, the Los Angeles Lakers lost the services of Center Wilt Chamberlain, the victim of a torn knee tendon. Wilt missed 70 games, and the Lakers were lucky to make the National Basketball Association playoffs. The New York Knickerbockers, on the other hand, never had a better season: they breezed into the finals behind Center Willis Reed, the league's Most Valuable Player. Then last week, with the best-of-seven series tied at two games apiece, a startling turnabout occurred. There...
...Netherlands into Germany. Crippled by their lack of transportation, the Dutch freeze and starve. In January 1945, the food ration is down to 500 calories a day; families eat tulip bulbs and "roof rabbit" -cats and dogs. Bread on the black market is $27 a loaf. Abandoned houses are torn up for firewood. Not until just before the German surrender do Allied food drops begin...
Doves, si! Pigeons, no! Like many another antiwar, pro-environment oracle, Poet Ezra Pound finds himself bitterly torn between those two cousins of the Columbidae family. In his translation from an Italian poem, the poet pounds the swarms of pigeons in the city of Venice that are, he says, "besmirching crowned heads, defiling brows and memorials . . . mocking the monuments which overshadow us." Besides, he complains, he abhors their habit of dumping "corrosive superfluities suddenly on the heads of pedestrians...
...Free University began three weeks ago, when a group of students took over the abandoned building, which is slated to be torn down next year...