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...Tuskegee, Ala., birthplace of Tuskegee Institute (for Negroes), the Macon Theater had the last word in separate but equal cinema. The separate ticket offices, separate entrances, and separate concessions were old as midnight popcorn, but there was an added feature: a ceiling-to-floor partition, running down the middle of the auditorium. There were 324 seats on the white side and 336 seats on the colored side. Up front: two separate but equal silver screens...
...Montgomery, Ala., where the Negroes' peaceful resistance to segregation sparked the bitterly successful 1956 bus boycott (TIME, Dec. 31, 1956), city fathers sold off the last animals in the Oak Park Zoo four months after a U.S. district court ruled that segregation in the park was unconstitutional. The animal sale marked the end of Montgomery's park system, left the city's 45,000 Negro and white children without a public swimming pool, tennis court or woodland glade...
...college reserve officers' training program as outmoded as the B-17 bomber? Fortnight ago, John D. Millett, president of Miami University of Ohio, posed the question on behalf of 176 college and university administrators gathered for an Air Force-sponsored conference on R.O.T.C. problems at Maxwell A.F.B., Ala. Continued changes in policy have caused growing tension and occasional open hostility between the colleges and the junior service. Even former Air Force Secretary James H. Douglas admitted to the educators that the A.F.R.O.T.C. program "suggests a considerable amount of lost motion," since only 4,000 officers are commissioned each year...
...Pennsylvania's A. M. Byers Co. from setting up a centralized maintenance system, although the arbitrator himself conceded that the old decentralized system was inefficient and costly. ¶A Republic Steel plant at Gadsden, Ala. from reducing the ratio of boilermakers' helpers to boilermakers, although methods and equipment had changed so drastically over the years that helpers were idle much of the time...
...miracle of The Miracle Worker is that night after night, the militant kook from The Bronx and the tireless kid from Manhattan tenements re-create with consuming vitality the remarkable collaboration between blind child and half-blind adult that blossomed in Tuscumbia, Ala. three-quarters of a century ago. So successful are the two actresses that Author Gibson is convinced they transcend the bounds of mere acting. "I've always felt the curtain call was haunted," says Gibson. "A high percentage of the applause is for the people who really lived...