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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finally, last week, the huge plane began to live up to the far-out name by which the Air Force had christened it-Valkyrie. At California's Edwards Air Force Base, North American Aviation Test Pilot Al White took the XB-70A off the runway, weighing 500,000 Ibs., the heaviest at which an aircraft has ever flown. During the 1-hr. 40-min. test, the plane set a new record for continuous supersonic flight: 74 min., at speeds ranging from Mach 1.4 (920 m.p.h.) to Mach 2.1 (1,425-m.p.h.) at a peak altitude...
Outdoorsy Place. "We frankly can hardly wait to see the Renaissance stuff," says Billy Al Bengston, one of Los Angeles' pop artists. He is hardly alone. Although the doors will not officially open until this week, museum memberships (at $10 each) have been rolling in at the rate of 200 a day for months. Director Brown expects more than 2,000,000 visitors in the first year, and one aide fears that it might reach...
...State police, under the direction of the notorious Col. Al Lingo, the Alabama director of public safety who first used cattle prods to break up civil rights demonstrations, are by far the largest and most formidable policing force in either city. The troopers are supplemented by "conservation officers," a ragtag band of rednecks, mostly from rural areas, who are anxious to beat the hell out of any Negroes they can lay hands...
Head It Off. Colonel Al Lingo was in Selma too-this time with 500 state troopers, leaving only about 250 to attend to the rest of Alabama's law-enforcement requirements. FBI agents drifted unobtrusively into town. Straw-bossing federal activities was John Doar, Assistant U.S. Attorney General in charge of civil rights. As a personal mediator sent by President Johnson came LeRoy Collins, onetime Democratic Governor of Florida, now chairman of the Community Relations Service, which was established under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Collins' orders from Johnson were to head off trouble at all costs...
Mapping the Route. Mediator LeRoy Collins provided an answer-of sorts. He had conferred with Selma's Mayor Smitherman, with Top Trooper Al Lingo and Sheriff Clark. They were willing to let the civil rights marchers cross the bridge to the point on Highway 80 where the Sunday march ended in disaster. Then the troopers would turn King and his followers back-and King would leave peaceably. Lingo even drew a rough map of the route that the marchers would be permitted to take. Collins, in turn, showed the map to King, who reluctantly fell in with the plan...