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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cars driving along the new expressway that knifes into the city from the north were stoned and shot at. White taxi driv ers venturing into the Negro section were burned by potash. Fire bombs were tossed. A Negro ex-convict named Charlie Davis led a shooting raid on a white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: Promise of Trouble | 9/12/1960 | See Source »

¶In the private U.S. preserve of the shot put, the first man that Army Lieut. Bill Nieder. 26. had to beat was himself. Though he held the world record (65 ft. 10 in.). Nieder had often been erratic under pressure, had flopped badly at the Olympic trials and made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Olympics | 9/12/1960 | See Source »

Before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals last week, white taxpayers and N.A.A.C.P. lawyers challenged Davis' move. Appearing for the defense. Louisiana's Attorney General Jack P. F. Gremillion lost his temper. "I am not going to stay in this den of iniquity,'' cried he, stalking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Desegregation Prospects | 9/5/1960 | See Source »

The next move is up to Davis. If a real crisis occurs, said S.R.C. last week, "prospects will be gloomy for the South and for national self-respect." But if New Orleans complies, "the myth of Southern ability to defy the law will have been fatally punctured; the consequences could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Desegregation Prospects | 9/5/1960 | See Source »

Ocean's 11. Frank Sinatra's off-screen clansters (Dean Martin, Peter Lawford Sammy Davis Jr. et al), as their usual tough-talking, gamboling selves, ham up a Las Vegas robbery with enough foolishness to make it look like fun.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Time Listings, Sep. 5, 1960 | 9/5/1960 | See Source »

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