Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...important to the arguments throughout the book. And Kennedy defends both the aims and the results of the traditional dissent. He says in a parenthesis, "Indeed, those who confidently assert that direct political action breeds 'disrespect for the law' should look more closely at the facts. In Montgomery, Alabama, at the height of the civil rights demonstrations, the Negro crime rate declined almost to zero." In making this statement Kennedy puts forth a notion which pervades the book, but is never clarified. For he supports in the name of traditional dissent many forms of protest whose aim is to break...
Thanksgiving Visitor, set in backwoods Alabama, elaborates on Capote's glowing relationship with his only boyhood friend, an old spinster cousin named Miss Sook. She had no education and had never traveled beyond the county borders. She was "a poet of a kind but deeply suppressed. She might have been an Emily Dickinson in another culture." In the simple TV tale, she coddles young "Buddy" (as Capote is called) and tries to shield him from his dour and insensitive relatives in the parentless household. The casting, supervised by the author, is impeccable. Geraldine Page, who won an Emmy award...
...when Thanksgiving Visitor was being shot last December in Alabama, he was on hand. Joining him for a "beautiful" reunion were a dozen of his relatives. Miss Sook died in 1938, but two other members of the household were there. They had seen Christmas Memory on TV, and it was not what they had expected. But neither was Truman. The shy, companionless and seemingly unpromising boy whom they remembered was now, at 44, dressed in a Cardin cape-and-cap ensemble, and with him, in a pony-skin suit, was Princess Lee Radziwill...
Died. Chauncey Sparks, 84, wartime Governor of Alabama, who started a former Army Air Corps sergeant named George C. Wallace on a new career in 1946 by giving him a $175-a-month assistant attorney general's job; of a heart attack; in Eufaula...
...that fold up like accordions. So far, 20 communities of these and similar quarters have been built with a combination of funds provided by localities, the Rosenberg Foundation and the Economic Opportunity Act. Kingsberry Homes, a division of Idaho-based Boise Cascade Corp., sells $4,750 prefab packages to Alabama and Louisiana farm laborers under a little-known self-help loan program of the Farmers Home Administration. Kingsberry's customers pay only $100 down, save money by erecting the homes themselves, and have 33 years to repay the 4% loans. Most of them formerly occupied plantation shacks that lacked even...