Word: equalizers
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Everyone,"' says Author Jehnson of Kelly's world, "was well fed and happy. Old people were dignified and respected. Women were courted with grace and courtesy. Men dealt with each other on equal terms, and small white and Negro boys swam together in the streams in naked freedom." It was a rural America that had largely disappeared more than half a century before-a world washed clean of all imperfection by the loving memory of an engaging...
...definition was challenged last week by the Justice Department in a suit filed against the city of Biloxi. In a brand-new kind of assault on segregation in the South's "public" parks and beaches, the U.S. argued that Negroes, too, are members of the public, entitled to equal use of the public beach. The suit was a quick legal response to a protest staged by Negroes on Biloxi's beach in April. Club-wielding whites mauled the Negro bathers; in a nightmare of ambush and reprisal, eight Negroes and two whites were wounded by gunfire...
...over a healthy paper. Daily circulation figures of 215,063 put the morning Post comfortably ahead of its chief local rival, the afternoon Houston Chronicle, and its Sunday circulation is the biggest in Texas. Editorially, the Post's blanket news coverage and lively writing have made it the equal of any paper in the Southwest. But Bill Hobby is taking command of a paper made outstanding by others- who have left...
...last week outside the F. W. Woolworth store. Inside, Woolworth's top management and some 120 stockholders gathered tensely for the company's first annual meeting since Negro students in the South selected Woolworth lunch counters as a major testing ground in their fight for equal rights...
...merge with the aggressive Seaboard Air Line Railroad, thus end a long rivalry. The new road would be called the Seaboard Coast Line, have assets of $900 million and rank tenth among the nation's railroads. Seaboard common stockholders would retain their present shares, which would be equal to one share in the new road. Coast Line common stockholders would receive 1.42 shares in the new company for each share now held. John W. Smith, Seaboard president, would become chairman of the new line and W. Thomas Rice, Coast Line president, president...