Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unscrewed Seats. In Northern executive suites, the directors of chain stores wrung their hands in anguish, decided to do nothing. (Negroes account for at least one-fourth of all business transacted in the 300 Southern branches of Woolworth's alone.) Local managers solved the problems in different ways: in Charlotte, the proprietor of the local McLellan Store unscrewed the seats from the lunch counter. Some Kress, Walgreen and Liggett stores roped off the seats so that everybody had to stand, or closed the lunch counters altogether...
...northern France's cathedral city of Amiens one afternoon last week, 35,000 French farmers raged through the heart of town, smashing windows and stoning cops in a riot that left 70 farmers and 50 police injured. By general agreement, France's farmers had legitimate cause for complaint: although they make up 25% of the population, they get only 10% of the national income.* De Gaulle's abolition of a parity index hitching farm prices to market prices had hit them hard. But the indignant farmers at Amiens (pop.100,000) were pushed into a rampaging mood...
...take the body of the King in a sitting position. The Minister of Cults has already summoned the nation's provincial governors. In turn, the governors summoned the district and village chiefs. Thus the word was passed to the most remote Laotian tribesmen, from the mountainous northern border with China to the arid southern plains where tigers roam...
...Kennedy is a far more formidable presidential candidate than they had believed possible. And Texas' Lyndon Johnson has corralled upwards of 300 Southern delegates; Johnson's backers vow their votes will never go to Stevenson. Pennsylvania's Governor David Lawrence, one of the last of the Northern Democratic bosses inclined toward Stevenson, last week flew to Springfield, Mo. to pay public tribute to Missouri's Stuart Symington. Said one former Stevenson follower (now actively campaigning for Kennedy): "There's no draft without an organization. No campaign, no candidate...
...Hindus, one of the holiest places in the universe is the city of Allahabad (pop. 332,295) in northern India. It is holy because it is one of the four spots where the urn of immortality dripped its nectar in the struggle between the gods and the demons. And it is also holy because it marks the confluence of three sacred rivers-the muddy Ganges, the blue Jumna and the invisible Sarasvati, which is supposed to flow underground. Every twelve years, the Hindus celebrate the Kumbh Mela (Urn Festival) at Allahabad, bathing in the waters of the three rivers...