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...horse-drawn delivery wagon. After he finished high school in 1925, he got a job with an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe signal gang, working along the tracks from Missouri to Chicago. Earning $22.56 a week, pretty good money in the mid-1920s, he married his longtime sweetheart. Bent on settling in Chicago, he went on to the big city alone because he did not have enough money for her fare. As soon as he could get a railroad pass, he brought his bride to Chicago. For nine years Gilbert worked as a fireman on the Alton Railroad. In those days...
...massive public demonstration against segregation in a local movie theater. Following more than a block behind the crowd he was summarily arrested, and spent 20 days in jail. Fasting the entire time. Perdew now faces a clearly fraudalent charge of assault with intent to kill, leveled by local officials bent on crippling the SNCC effort in Albany...
That night, while the royal couples and 156 other guests dined in Buckingham Palace, 2,000 demonstrators poured into Trafalgar Square with banners proclaiming "Down with the Nazi Queen." The crowd seemed bent on storming the palace but encountered massed lines of bobbies blocking the way. Police helmets clattered across sidewalks, fists flew, traffic stalled, and prancing police horses bowled over crowds. Rioters fought off cops from atop a doubledeck bus. A few youths who made it to the Mall were stopped by flying tackles...
...deploy their strange instruments. They will photograph the moon-covered sun in every available way, shoot rockets into the shadow. A German group will check Einstein's theory of relativity by photographing stars that appear to be close to the sun to see how much their light is bent by the sun's gravitation. Distant radio telescopes will bombard the moon with radar waves so that observers in the path of totality can see how the waves reflected from the moon respond to the unnatural darkness...
...attache from 1952 to 1957, he impressed one U.S. Air Force general as "easy and outgoing, an extravert who got along very well." West Pointers found him "spoony"-meaning suave. He played a cool, quiet game of golf at the Army-Navy Club, his balding, white-fringed head bent over his putter as generals and admirals chatted...