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...Reverting to her pre-Pulitzer past, when she came within a semester of a law degree. Novelist Harper (To Kill a Mockingbird) Lee, 35, cast herself in the unlikely role of occasional legal adviser and researcher for Truman Capote, a longtime friend from Scouting days in Monroeville, Ala. After accompanying the aging (37) boy author on a fact-finding and mood-gathering trip to Garden City, Kans.-the scene of the Clutter murder case (TIME, Nov. 30, 1959), on which Capote's next book will be based-Miss Lee packed her childhood pal back off to his Swiss writing...
...blood is drained from paid donors by commercial supply houses, which sell the blood for profit. They need a license from the National Institutes of Health for interstate shipments. They flourish in the Midwest and the South. One such is the Community Blood and Plasma Service Inc. of Birmingham, Ala., which sold blood to the indicted Westchester dealers, but, far from being implicated, helped Public Health Service officers open up the case. It pays donors an average of $9 but may go to $20 for rare types. In segregated Alabama, its blood is labeled by donor's race...
...just past midnight when the two big tractor-trailers, loaded with cheese and butter, pulled out of a terminal in Birmingham, Ala., to start on the ten-hour, 365-mile run to New Orleans. At 2:45 they were barreling along Alabama Highway 5 when a cream-colored car passed them, raced on to a junction, turned and sped back. From the car a shotgun was fired point-blank at the cab of the lead truck, critically wounding Driver Charles Warren...
...drivers. Since then, Bowman trucks have been shot at more than 70 times in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina; four drivers besides Warren have been wounded. More than 20 trucks have been fired at while laboring up a steep grade on U.S. Highway 278 near Piedmont, Ala.; it has come to be known as "Bullet Hill...
...control some 25% of Britain's production of paint, more than 50% of its plastic film, and 90% of its output of man-made fibers. Overseas the firm would do business through a maze of satellites in 40 countries, including a $10 million Courtaulds viscose plant near Mobile, Ala., chemical companies in six South American and twelve Asian countries. Presiding over it all would be I.C.I.'s Chambers, a wine merchant's son who was educated at the London School of Economics...