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First came trial rockets-rumors that Air Force Lieut. Colonel John ("Shorty") Powers, 40, voice of the astronauts, was no longer A-OK with his NASA bosses. For months Shorty bantily crowed at the notion. Two weeks ago, the crow got lower. "I am sure my role is going to change," he admitted after a meeting with NASA Administrator James Webb. Last week it was official; Shorty was the cargo on a one-man, one-way man shoot out of Canaveral. Next on the pad: Paul Haney, 35, a NASA publicity man since shortly after the agency's founding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 9, 1963 | 8/9/1963 | See Source »

...Kennedy's "moral crisis" speech to the nation, when Evers drove up to his Jackson home. He got out of his car with a bundle of T shirts, to be handed out next morning to civil rights demonstrators. Across the front of the T shirts was stamped: JIM CROW MUST GO. Evers took only a few steps. Then, from a honeysuckle thicket about 150 ft. away, came a shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Life & Death in Jackson | 6/21/1963 | See Source »

...slave," they chanted, "I'll be buried in my grave and go home to my Lord." Other Negroes joined in. "No more killin' here, no more killin' over here." Soon a whole chorus of swaying, hand-clapping people was sobbing, "No more Jim Crow over here, over here; I'm dead before I'd be a slave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Life & Death in Jackson | 6/21/1963 | See Source »

...months-ever since a feeble little bus boycott-Negroes in the furniture and textile town of Lexington, N.C., had returned silently to their Jim Crow world. Then last week, caught up in the fever of the Negroes' national revolution, 14 Negroes decided to try for service in a few of Lexington's segregated stores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: The Inexorable Process | 6/14/1963 | See Source »

...lead his music lo the border of atonality-a frontier he intends to cross soon in compositions for jazz trio. His intricate style and intellectual leanings have caused occasional snipers to complain that he "plays white" and doesn't swingue,* but Paris suffers from a galloping case of Crow Jim, and to all but the heaviest listeners, Solal swings just fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jazz: Mister Solal | 6/7/1963 | See Source »

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