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...private citizens to eavesdrop on others. The civil service abolished personality tests. The Internal Revenue Service, which had been caught bugging rooms where taxpayers conferred with lawyers, promised never to do it again. The Post Office walled up the peepholes through which its agents had been spying on postal employees in their locker rooms and toilets...
Shotguns at 2 a.m. Tipped off that the Veneys were being sheltered by a family named Garrett, the raiders mistakenly crashed into the home of Negro Postal Employee Samuel Lankford. At 2 a.m. Lankford awoke to find four raiders toting shotguns and aiming flashlights in his face. His six children got the same treatment. Schoolteacher Lucinda Wallace was showing slides to a Bible class at home when six armed men burst in, while eight others barred her hysterical mother from the house. When Mrs. Maggie Sheppard, 72, refused to answer the raiders she was arrested, along with her mentally...
...look at the Common Market. Poland's Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki turned up in Stockholm; Hungarian Boss János Kádár talked to Tito in Bled; the Shah of Iran left Rumania for an eight-day state visit to Yugoslavia. No sooner had Rumanian Postal Minister Mihai Balanescu arrived in Paris to inspect French telecommunications than Kentucky Governor Ed Breathitt popped up in Poznan for a Polish tool fair...
...election day fidgeting over the latest returns. At 8:15 p.m., a young campaign worker hung up the phone and exultantly pounded a fist on the table. "You won!" the youth cried. "You won!" Amerson leaned back and laughed with relief. By a 387-vote margin, the stocky ex-postal clerk had be come the first Alabama Negro to win a Democratic nomination for sheriff since the misty days of Reconstruction...
Dividing Greater London into postal zones, the Graham organizers found supervisors for each zone, who in turn commanded subzone lieutenants and block captains. In all, 20,000 laymen were recruited to make "threshold visitations" to 3,000,000 London homes during the crusade, inviting people to the nightly rallies at Earl's Court...