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...instill terror and engage in violence. That fact was demonstrated one night last week by the eerie glow of Klan crosses burning in a score of Mississippi communities. In Louisiana, TV Newsman Robert Wagner was seized by armed Klansmen as he tried to cover their secret meeting in a barn not far from Baton Rouge. He was forced to remove his trousers, lie in a poison ivy patch, where he was beaten with a belt before being shoved into a dog pen on a truck. Beaten again, he was released under a threat of death if he reported the incident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The South: Next Step: Button-Down Robes | 5/1/1964 | See Source »

...Negro girl for a mistress; he had married her. As outraged as any of his supporters at this breach in the code, Abigail's husband does what he has to do: he leaves her, abandons his campaign, and leads a mob to burn Grandfather Howland's barn to the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Density of the Past | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

...producing a Kentucky Derby winner are about 14,000 to 1. However, Wright struck it rich: in 1936, at the Saratoga yearling sale, he bid $14,000 for a brown colt named Bull Lea. On the track, Bull Lea won a useful $94,825. But it was in the barn with the mares that Bull Lea lived up to his name. By last year, his offspring, most notably Citation, Armed and Iron Liege, had won the astounding total of $13,280,851. The magnificent old stallion is now 29, the equivalent of 145 in human years, and, with a mere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Horse Racing: Hard Times at Calumet | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

Barnstorming Act. Next day McNamara and Khanh took off on a barn storming tour, crisscrossing the guerrilla-infested Mekong Delta and hitting three provincial centers in one day. Their plane was trailed by another carrying two squads of Vietnamese paratroopers, who were to be dropped to protect the V.I.P.s had they been forced down, and was escorted by a half-dozen AD6 fighters. On the ground the pair plunged into a round of grassroots politicking that left locals gasping. At Cantho, 80 miles southwest of Saigon, McNamara and Khanh ignored a blazing oil-storage tank-set afire by Viet Cong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Chips on Khanh | 3/20/1964 | See Source »

...does seem far more urgent for all agencies concerned to concentrate on making smoking safer rather than wailing endlessly about the smoking hazard being on the loose after the barn doors have been belatedly closed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 24, 1964 | 1/24/1964 | See Source »

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