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...chemical nerve-signal transmitters that becomes poisonous after serving its function. This affects control of the nervous system and ultimately causes the body to poison itself. This week, if all goes according to plan, the Army will begin shipping 12,540 rockets armed with GB from depots in Anniston, Ala., and Blue Grass, Ky., to Sunny Point arsenal in North Carolina. There the rockets, crated in concrete-and-steel boxes, will be loaded on a hulk, towed to sea some 230 miles off the Florida coast and scuttled in 16,000 ft. of water...
Most of the eight Harvard students had never been South before. Marva Jones, a third-year student is, on the other hand, a veteran of civil rights works in Lowndes County and Anniston, Ala. She came down because she wanted to see what had been accomplished since then. "There has been change," she remarked. "When I was down here in '64 nobody spoke to us about getting Negroes to overcome their fear of voting. They weren't allowed to vote...
...state that Coleman, one of the local white courthouse-hangers-on who are so often available for jury duty in the South, was on the venire list for his own trial. Another all-white Alabama jury did convict Hubert Strange last December for murdering a Negro motorist near Anniston; compared with the almost certain death that a Negro defendant would have drawn had the motorist been white, Strange got ten years, a sentence that makes him eligible for parole in three years...
Williams, which lost at Harvard by an score last year, lost only two of its starting nine through graduation. One of the two graduating seniors was captain Mike Anniston. Against Harvard last year, several of the matches wont to games, though Harvard managed to win all the close ones...
Significant Difference. The prosecution's case was much stronger than in the Anniston trial. It was the already-familiar story told in damning detail by Gary Thomas Rowe, an FBI informant planted in the Ku Klux Klan, who testified that he rode with the killers when they gunned down Mrs. Liuzzo. Despite his first-hand testimony, juries in two state trials had failed to convict Collie LeRoy Wilkins, 22, on murder charges. The significant difference in federal court last week was that Wilkins and two fellow Klansmen, Eugene Thomas, 42, and William Orville Eaton, 41, were prosecuted under...