Word: beers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Waving Confederate flags, emitting Rebel yells, and sipping beer from paper cups, spectators at the big raceway in Darlington, S.C., waited with genial impatience last week for the start of the Southern 500, a classic stock-car event. They barely noticed the tall, lean man whose neat blue and white seersucker suit contrasted sharply with the bib overalls, T shirts and baseball caps in the crowd. Then the stranger in town stepped up onto the platform erected temporarily on the edge of the track, approached the microphone, and desperately tried to create an instant rapport with his audience...
...irritation. But many police, too, seemed irritated at having to spend their holidays in crowd control, and they began officiously ordering people around. So when a scuffle broke out between police and a suspected pickpocket, fighting quickly spread. Young blacks bom barded the police with rocks, bottles and beer cans. The police seized garbage-can lids for protection, then counterattacked with nightsticks. When it was over, some 400 were injured-325 of them police. It was the worst such conflict in nearly two decades...
Town, and the mob set afire more than a score of buildings-beer halls, liquor stores, schools, post offices-in Langa and two other townships. Several cars, too, were stopped, overturned and put to the torch. That was when the police started shooting. Twenty-seven people died that night...
...Golden Ox, will be jammed, so visitors may find themselves staying inside the hall, settling for hot dogs. For those unfortunates, however, there will be at least one amenity. As a concession to the city's midsummer heat, the Republican National Committee agreed to allow the sale of beer inside the arena...
...humor. When a former Georgia Governor called a press conference to denounce Carter, Powell countered, "Being called a liar by Lester Maddox is like being called ugly by a frog." When not home in Atlanta with his wife and nine-year-old daughter, Powell spends his free hours drinking (beer or bourbon) with reporters. Says Political Writer Richard Reeves: "Jody is genuinely good company. Carter...