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...assassination attempts are not unknown. In January 1969 a Soviet army lieutenant disguised as a policeman opened fire on Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev as he was being driven to the Kremlin. Brezhnev escaped unharmed, and the would-be assassin was declared deranged and confined to a mental ward...
Timilty did gain a psychological victory over White, surprising even some of his own supporters with his unexpectedly strong showing. White's organization had hoped to pick up 60 per cent of the vote and possibly even carry every ward in the city. These expectations were reinforced by a pre-election poll conducted by The Boston Globe, which predicted that White's margin of victory would...
...study by researchers at the Reproductive Biology Research Foundation of St. Louis and the University of California at Los Angeles will be harder to dismiss because it was so carefully conducted. The researchers found 20 men who volunteered for the study and confined them to the metabolic research ward of U.C.L.A.'s Neuropsychiatric Institute. There they were forbidden to smoke cigarettes or drink coffee or alcohol, and given no marijuana for eleven days before their testosterone levels were measured. Only then were they allowed to smoke pot. Each man was given a daily average of five marijuana cigarettes containing...
...Eighty to 90 per cent of the new registrants will support the aims of the convention, Stuart Vidockler, chairman of the Cambridge Convention '75 Steering Committee, said earlier this month. Vidockler said that in ward four alone there are 5000 to 10,000 unregistered voters, many of whom are in the so-called "young and transient" groups likely to support the lobby...
...National Guardsmen into the Louisville area. Later on Saturday morning police in Louisville arrested 75 sign-carrying people (including the Grand Dragon of Kentucky's Ku Klux Klan) who were assembling in the downtown area despite a ban ordered by Mayor Sloane on parades and demonstrations. Soon after ward, several truckloads of armed Guardsmen were moved into the business district. Declared the National Guard commander: "They will be used when and where needed until order is restored...