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Blast of Bombs. This sort of prediction, oratorical in many areas of the South, has to be taken with seriousness in Vulcan's city. Reason: in the last decade, by minimal count of Birmingham's white newspapers, there have already been 22 dynamite bombings and four arson burnings at tributable to race tensions. Fountain Heights and North Smithfield, where Negroes, with a go-ahead from federal courts, began moving in nine years ago to break the city's segregated housing patterns, are now known as "Dynamite Hill." The $18,000 home of the Negro woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: BIRMINGHAM: Integration's Hottest Crucible | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

...Arson on the Rocks. In Apleton, Austria, Volunteer Fireman Friedrich Preiner admitted setting fire to 26 houses because alcoholic drinks are "always distributed free to the fire brigade at the scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 8, 1958 | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...Kuties, however, are not giving up the fight. Interviewed at their training hideout deep in the Green Mountains, their chaperone and captain stated that "the Kirkland House Arson and General Hooraw Society has offered to protect us with a squad of Pinkerton men, and besides, can't you see what would happen if some cops tried to arrest us right there in the middle of the Stadium? Gentlemen, we have faith that if such an outrage was threatened, Harvard undergraduates would not sit idly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Measures Taken To Thwart KKK | 11/21/1958 | See Source »

Three organizations submitted new candidates for the Kampus Kutie Kontest last night. The Porcellian Club, the Association of Hungarian Students in North America, and the Kirkland House Arson and General Hooraw Society all nominated Radcliffe girls for the kontest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kontest Attracts More Kuties | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

...lock on the Band Room door was evidently tampered with," commented Trottenberg; "however, it may very well have been an eager Band member trying to get his instrument." "There is no tangible evidence of arson," Trottenberg emphasized...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University to Probe Varsity Club Blaze | 10/7/1958 | See Source »

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