Word: copse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Knight lowered his voice: "Had a little trouble here last night--cop got shot." He grinned. "Same little raggedy-ass cop we kidnapped back in '61.--Hell, it ain't nothin' like it was back then. Them cops came right in here last night. We didn' use' to 'low no...
Knight was known around Albany as a "gang leader." In the South, this implied nothing about jackets, a "turf," organized warfare or a hierarchical command, but meant simply that he fought hard, drank a lot, carried influence among his male peers in C.M.E. as the best among equals, and weilded...
Our first conversations were necessarily political. Knight assumed my inferiority in his territory and wanted to prove it in mine: the white problem. He knew my line of course. He had heard it before. I was working for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, I was "the new Movement cat...
Just before the jury acted, Presidential Peacemakers Kenneth Roy all, former Army Secretary, and Earl Blaik, former West Point football coach, returned from Birmingham to Washington to talk with Kennedy. Both remained tight-lipped about their findings and recommendations, pending a final report to the President this week, but they...
Twenty gun-toting cops burst into the offices of La Dépêche d'Algérie, Algiers' leading French-language newspaper, ordered the 200 employees out within ten minutes. Simultaneously, out in the provinces police swooped on L'Echo d'Oran and La...