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...Sand Mountain area between Chattanooga, Tenn., and Gadsden, Ala., is no place for pilgrims. It is a land of mountaineers who tote rifles in their cars, glare in suspicion at strangers, and believe unshakably in racial segregation. Last month William Moore, a onetime mental patient, thought he might change things by walking through the area displaying civil rights signs. It cost him his life; he was found shot dead on U.S. Highway 11 (TIME, May 3). Last week, following in his footsteps, came ten more civil rights hikers. They were arrested as they crossed the Alabama line, but others were...
...Warning. Moore's trek through the South began on April 21. Starting out from Chattanooga, he talked to many men along the way. One was Floyd Simpan, 41, proprietor of a country grocery on the road near Collbran, Ala. Unlike much-traveled Bill Moore, Simpson had spent nearly all his life within ten miles of his store; he did not finish high school until after he was 30. On the morning of April 23, the country storekeeper and some pals saw Moore plodding toward them. They read his signs and talked with him. Recalls Simpson: "We couldn...
...named Nathaniel Welch of Auburn, Ala., to the Southern Interstate Nuclear Board, appointed four members to the Battle of Lake Erie Sesquicentennial Celebration Commission, notified Philadelphia that the Navy would name a Polaris submarine after Benjamin Franklin, made a phone call that commenced a year-long mechanical countdown toward the 1964 opening of the New York World's Fair...
...Woolworth demonstrations protested the refusal of four department stores in Birmingham, Ala., to desegregate their lunch counter facilities. The picketers claimed that owners of Woolworth's, Newberry's, H.L. Green, and had reneged on a year-old promise desegregate...
...votes of Rep. Carl Eliot (D-Ala.), Rep. Homer Thornberry (D-Tex.), and Rep. James Trimble (D-Ark.) will decide the fate of the bill. The three are ordinarily Administration backers, but sentiment against the bill in their districts may force them to oppose...