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Clear Melancholy. Ever since his good days began, with his first hit record (I Got a Woman) eight years ago, Charles has been steadily plagued by souvenirs from sadder times. He was born in Albany, Ga., blinded by illness at six, orphaned at 15, addicted to narcotics at 16. He went to school just long enough to learn Braille, at 17 struck out with a trio; soon he was in Seattle playing ersatz Nat King Cole, and he kept at it well into his 20s. Then, in a flash of insight, he decided to be himself. He began singing...
...York officials discovered bad tuna sold under a Dagim Tahorim kosher label, sent inspectors to hundreds of groceries to search for the suspect cans. WY2 and WY3 cans also turned up in Cleveland, and inspectors searched out Washington Packing shipments to stores in Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago and Augusta, Ga...
SNCC, which has organized voter registration in such places as Albany, Ga. and Greenwood, Miss., "is in serious financial trouble," according to Claude Weaver '65, chairman of the Harvard-Radcliffe Civil Rights Coordinating Committee. "If they don't receive more money within the next month, their projects may have to be abandoned," Weaver said...
...first projects they initiated was a voter registration campaign in Terrell County, Ga., which laid the groundwork for the popular movement that brought Martin Luther King and other integration leaders to Albany last summer...
...Washington office will be concerned with the analysis of legislative-executive activity and other developments affecting the civil rights movement. It will relay this information to the Mississippi group and to key centers of civil rights activity such as Atlanta, Ga. The office will attempt to influence action on civil rights and civil liberties by contacting Congressmen, federal agencies and officials, and private organizations...