Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bogalusa a couple of weeks ago. Christenberry cited Bogalusa's Public Safety Commissioner Arnold Spiers, Police Chief Claxton Knight, and Patrolman Donald Penton for civil contempt of court. Last week, during hearings, the judge was further enraged to see films of Bogalusa demonstrations which showed whites waving Confederate flags everywhere. "Except on the post office, are there any American flags there anywhere?" he asked. When some courtroom spectators laughed, Christenberry went on: "This is a serious business. Every picture I see, there are only Confederate flags. There must have been at least one American flag...
...Irish Chain, Windmill, Wild-Goose Chase, Princess Feather, the Drunkard's Path. Some drew from the Bible, such as Rose of Sharon, Star of Bethlehem, or Jacob's Ladder. Others were celebrations of American history: Whig's Defeat, Eagles and Stars, and red, white and blue flag patterns. Others incorporated Pennsylvania Dutch hex signs or laurel leaves, in recognition of Napoleon's neoclassic symbol of glory. Superstitious quilt makers often spoiled the symmetry deliberately in order not to imitate God's perfection and thus tempt divine wrath...
...Your cover story on Race Driver Jim Clark [July 9] says that "in the early days, British motorists had to be preceded by men on foot crying their approach." Nonsense! Up to 1896, mechanically propelled vehicles had to be preceded by a man carrying a red flag, neither to exceed 4 m.p.h. I have seen steam rollers moving at 3 m.p.h. with a man walking in front with the flag (I am 83). On Nov. 14, 1896, the speed permitted was increased to 12 m.p.h. To celebrate, a run was organized from London to Brighton for a collection of motor...
...overthrow Castro. Ike crossed no t's and dotted no i's as to the specifics of the plan. In Sorensen's words, Kennedy "inherited the plan, the planners and, most troubling of all, the Cuban exile brigade-an armed force, flying another flag, highly trained in secret Guatemalan bases, eager for one mission only...
...endowment: $70 million), a 42-acre stretch of green lawns and classic buildings devoted to the free education of 700 "poor, white male orphans." To desegregate Girard has become the consuming passion of Cecil Moore, the militant president of Philadelphia's N.A.A.C.P. "It's a perpetual red flag," protests Moore. "A boy wakes up every morning to see a reminder that he's inferior...