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Where most of Harkins' army career was spent in administrative jobs, Westmoreland is an elite combat officer. A South Carolina native, he attended The Citadel for a year, switched to West Point and graduated in 1936. Westmoreland was first captain during his senior year, Sunday-school teacher to the faculty children, and apparently something of a ladies' man. His left cheek bore a scar from a boyhood automobile accident, but Westmoreland did not discourage the idea among the local girls that he acquired the wound in a duel...
Within the Citadel. The longer the debate drags on, the greater will be the external pressures on the Senate for action, and last week civil rights advocates were plainly becoming increasingly restless. In Baltimore more than 2,000 marched on city hall to demand housing and job legislation. In Tulsa 54 were arrested for trespassing during a CORE-sponsored sit-in at a segregated restaurant. When the demonstrators, 50 Negroes and four whites, refused to leave, they were carried out bodily by cops. At police headquarters, they were carried inside, booked but not jailed. In St. Augustine, Fla., cops with...
Perhaps the most remarkable demonstration of all came on Easter Sunday in Birmingham, Ala., citadel of segregation. There, some 35,000 people, Negro and white in almost equal numbers and comprising the largest integrated gathering in Alabama history, flocked to a city-owned football field to hear Evangelist Billy Graham. Exclaimed he: "What a moment and what an hour in Birmingham!" It was certainly that-far different from another Sunday, only seven months before, when a dynamite blast at a Negro church killed four little girls. Said Arthur P. Cook, white publisher of three local weeklies, about the Graham meeting...
...then and no athlete, but he early discovered his talent for storytelling, and used to gather a crowd of his contemporaries around him on the family veranda on a summer afternoon while he held forth. In his early teens, he sneaked off to Boston, where he hung around that citadel of burlesque, the Old Howard, cadging an occasional pat from the strippers. Cheever's academic career, in which he never took much interest, ended abruptly when he was expelled from Thayer Academy at the age of 17-chiefly for neglecting his studies and smoking...
Birmingham. It was while he was in his post-Albany eclipse that King began planning for his most massive assault on the barricades of segregation. The target: Birmingham, citadel of blind, diehard segregation. King's lieutenant, Wyatt Tee Walker, has explained the theory that governs King's planning: "We've got to have a crisis to bargain with. To take a moderate approach, hoping to get white help, doesn't work...