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...recommended charities are small but their intensive scope only makes each student's contribution more significant: a $3000 project to build a school for "grade school dropouts" in Kentucky; a program supporting university correspondence courses for Negroes and Colored in South Africa; The Southern Courier, established by Harvard students to provide accurate reporting of civil rights news in the South; Miles College, one of Alabama's few Negro colleges; an American Friends Service Committee project to help Vietnamese refugees; and Phillips Brooks House. The emphasis this year is on providing "seed money" to help and encourage worthwhile but struggling ventures...
This article first appeared in the SOUTHERN COURIER, in August and is reprinted with permission. Its author, Marshall Bloom, editor of the Amherst STUDENT reported on Montgomery for the COURIER last summer...
...charity, the Phillips Brooks House, and a brand new one, the Southern Courier, complete the list drawn up by the Combined Charities Drive's reviewing committee...
Subscribers on the Sly. Courier reporters and stringers, who include Negro boys as young as 15, have suffered the expected difficulties: threats, a beating, a harrowing 100-m.p.h. chase on the highway. But often the white community can be helpful. In Lowndes County, where Tom Coleman was acquitted of the murder of the Rev. Jonathan Daniels, Coleman's sister, county superintendent of schools, cheerfully briefs the Courier on school affairs...
...vestigial branch of British intelligence, large and powerful during the war but fallen into genteel desuetide, receives a report that the Russians may be assembling a missile base in East Germany. A charter-plane pilot is induced to veer off-course to photograph the countryside and a middle-aged courier, sent to Finland to retrieve the film, is run down by an automobile on the way to his hotel. His death may mean that the Russians really are up to something; but, more important, it provides an excuse for reactivating the Department...