Word: klan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Eldon Lee Edwards, 51, by day an auto-body paint sprayer, by night Imperial Wizard of the self-styled only "true" latter-day Ku Klux Klan, an Atlanta-based organization claiming membership in nine states and believed to be the biggest (an estimated 50,000 "knights") of several Klans still operating; of a heart attack; in College Park...
...Girl hostess, helped light fires un der ragtag groups of everyday Steven-sonites ("We'll storm that place!"). Over the years, the proper Stevensonians had saved their loftiest political scorn not for those bedrock Republicans, Adolphe Menjou and John Wayne, but for Peter Lawford's Kooky Klucks Klan...
...campaign against Smith showed a ferocity that would be impossible in the more homogenized U.S. of 1960. He was referred to as "Alcohol) Smith." Widely circulated stories reported him so drunk at public functions that cronies had to support him to keep him from falling down. The Ku Klux Klan issued a "Klarion Kail for a Krusade" against him, attacked him repeatedly in the Klan publication, Fellowship Forum. A typical Forum cartoon showed what a Cabinet meeting would be like if Smith got elected: the Pope and a dozen fat priests sitting happily around the table, with Smith, in bellboy...
...must water down their school-bus proposal before their state convention opens April 22-featuring an invocation by a rabbi, prayer by a priest, benediction by a Congregational minister-or reap their share of trouble from the hottest religious division in state politics since the vote-strong Ku Klux Klan rode around heckling Maine Catholics...
Inevitably, the sitdowns washed up some familiar flotsam: the duck-tailed, sideburned swaggerers, the rednecked hatemongers, the Ku Klux Klan. Stores in Durham, Greensboro and Rock Hill, S.C. were closed after getting anonymous telephoned bomb threats. Just as inevitably, the national pressure groups arrived on the scene and helped organize the sitdowns in other Southern cities. Five days after the Greensboro sitdown began, a representative of the Congress of Racial Equality turned up in Greensboro and Durham, announced that CORE was taking over, and advised the sitters to concentrate on just one chain-Woolworth...