Word: birminghams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issue of Nov. 8, 1963, we ' ran a story about Miles College, a small Negro institution on the outskirts of Birmingham, Ala., so strapped that it had to stop watering its lawn for fear it would run up too big a water bill. Its buildings were inadequate and shabby, it lacked accreditation, and prejudice was blocking attempts at self-improvement. Miles, the only four-year college available to most of the 4,000 Negro students who graduate from Birmingham's high schools each year, was, to put it bluntly, in big trouble...
Foundations, which had shied away from contributing to an unaccredited institution, began to change their minds. The Field Foundation, for example, donated $132,000 for an English reading program. Even a group of wealthy and powerful people in Birmingham who had been prejudiced against the school had some second thoughts and contributed $90,000. Most important of all, as far as President Pitts is concerned, is the fact that TIME introduced Miles to the world. Says he: "The story gave us an image that we couldn't have got if we'd hired McCann-Erickson...
Somehow, readers of the British story and of the few U.S. papers carrying it ignored Lennon's foray into theology; but last week, after the quote was reprinted in the U.S. teen magazine Datebook, all hellfire broke loose. Manager Tommy Charles of WAQY in Birmingham, Ala., forthwith banned the playing of any Beatle record on his radio station. KTEE, in Idaho Falls, Idaho, announced a similar policy "until Lennon retracts." KZEE, in Weatherford, Texas, damned their songs "eternally." By week's end, dozens of U.S. stations and others as far away as Spain and South Africa had joined...
...freedom of action in any significant way." Does this include even a few minutes of street-corner interrogation? How can police obey Miranda's command to furnish lawyers for indigent suspects? Most communities, especially in the South, have neither money nor means to do so. Says Birmingham Chief Jamie Moore: "We don't even have a public-defender system." Yet if no lawyer is available for a suspect who wants one, the police cannot ask him a thing. Equally baffling is how to prove that a suspect who does talk, "knowingly," waived his rights to silence...
From the Rockies to the Atlantic, from Boston to Birmingham, the first two weeks in July-traditional start of summer's "dog days"* were as hot as anyone could remember. Temperatures brushed past the 90° point for nine consecutive days in New York, Washington and Baltimore, twelve days straight in Denver. In St. Louis the mercury soared above 100° six days running, at one point hit a broiling-and almost unbearable...