Word: aprill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Scotland Yard's crack detective Tommy Butler took over, the alert immigration official's original suspicions were confirmed: fingerprints proved that Sneyd was, in fact, Illinois-born James Earl Ray, 40, alias Eric Starve Gait, the escaped convict accused of assassinating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4 in Memphis...
...Identity. Since the time that Ray had left his fingerprints on the .30-'06 Remington rifle that killed Dr. King, he had made an elaborate odyssey from justice. He fled to Toronto on April 8, where he checked in and out of two $9-a-week flophouses. He adopted the name Ramon George Sneyd, that of a Toronto policeman, which he possibly picked at random from a city directory. Using his new identity, Ray submitted a passport application. Because of Canada's ludicrously simple passport procedures-which demand, in effect, that the applicant merely swear that...
...usually known for his cool-John Charles Daly, 54, for nearly two decades the urbane, polysyllabic quizmaster on CBS's What's My Line? Last year Daly switched his own line to take charge of the Voice of America. Things hummed along mellifluously until Daly left last April for a six-week Asian tour, only to learn on his return that one of his senior officials had been removed without his consent by Leonard H. Marks, director of the parent United States Information Agency. Daly abruptly announced that he would quit the next day. In reply, Marks struck...
...that Knowland reacted hotly when Negroes organized a boycott of a square block of food and liquor stores called Housewives Market. It was a curious boycott: Negroes had no particular grievance against the stores. But when local Black Panther Leader Bobby Hutton was shot and killed by police last April, black militants decided to retaliate by forcing Housewives Market to support their demands; the chief of these was a call for the indictment of the police involved in the shooting. Despite heavy Negro patronage, the stores understandably demurred, and pickets assembled to turn customers away, often by threatening them. Business...
...Then April came, and the next shock hit. Martin Luther King was assassinated, and nothing was different after all. Black students brought America back to the university, just as white radicals had brought the war to the university...