Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noted that "half the troublemakers were from out of town." A girl in a yellow skirt talked to a schoolboy, his books in one hand, a gallon jug with two lively brown mice in the other. "If you want to be chicken," said the girl, "go on in." The boy smiled shamefacedly -and went to school. The Central High School class bell rang at 8:45-and at almost that instant a shriek went up: "Here come the niggers...
...Negro children reported that they were well treated inside the school. (Arkansas N.A.A.C.P. Leader Daisy Bates had carefully coached her charges to be prepared for insults, to be dignified when vilified, and above all to reveal no bitterness when questioned by newsmen.) During the noon hour a white boy and girl, both school leaders, saw a Negro boy eating alone. They asked: "Would you like to come over to our table?" The boy smiled gratefully: "Gosh, I'd love to." And another Negro pupil recalled: "The white kids broke the ice. They talked to us." Clearly, many...
...lonely roadside seven miles from the town of Everett one day last week, a small boy waved down a passing motorist. Said eight-year-old Lee Crary solemnly: "I'm the boy they're looking for." Indeed, "they" were. For 3½ days more than 600 searchers-FBI agents, sheriff's deputies, airmen, Boy Scouts-had been frantically stalking a 20-square-mile section of the state. The Post Office had intercepted a crudely written ransom note demanding $10,000 in exchange for Lee Crary's return. Safe at last in the hands of FBI interrogators...
...clapped his hand over Lee's mouth, warned him to "be quiet and don't make any noise because I don't want to hurt you." The kidnaper stuffed a lace handkerchief into Lee's mouth, then tied another around his face. The boy was then led to the car, shoved into the trunk-which, Lee noted, had holes punched in the lid-and carried...
Food for a Spider. Lee never panicked. An astute (IQ: 140) watcher of cowboy and adventure TV shows, he peered through the holes in the trunk, made mental notes of the car's movements. For three nights the boy and his kidnaper slept in the car. Each morning the two drove into the back country west of Everett. They spent their days in the woods happily engrossed in nature study, fed small spiders to big spiders ("The big spiders would grab the little ones and roll them up in a ball. Bob said that was for their winter food...