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...were driving west out highway 80 towards Selma, Alabama, cruising into the sunset. Every town we passed through had been the scene of adventures four years earlier when I had been on the Courier. I remember that every time we went out to dig up information on a story I was sure we were going to be shot. Civil Rights workers were murdered all the time in '66. A lady from Detroit, Mrs. Luizzo, had been killed in 1965 near Selma for riding in a car with some Negro guys. On my first story for the Courier, I and another...

Author: By John G. Short, (SPECIAL TO THE SUMMER NEWS) | Title: Lobsters, Christmas Trees, and Sparkles Star in the New Saga of the Deep South | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

...ceremony was as stark as the apparel. Dropping a stick before the cou ple, the pastor pronounced the legal essentials in mod vernacular: "You're married, as long as you dig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rites: I Take Thee, Baby | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

...prose in memory). "The book is a very special form of communication," McLuhan told the annual convention of the American Booksellers Association in Washington. "It is unique and it will persist." As the nation's leading exponent of electronic communication, however, McLuhan could not resist at least one dig at the reading public, which he says is made up of "print freaks." The United States, he said, "is the only country founded on literacy-on the Gutenberg press. Therefore, it is having the hardest time adapting to the electronic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 13, 1969 | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

Inadequate Quarantine. University of Rochester Biochemist Wolf Vishniac is not particularly concerned about the Apollo 11 mission, which will bring back only surface samples. But Vishniac is convinced that more elaborate quarantine precautions should be taken thereafter. On later missions, he points out, astronauts will dig for samples from below the surface, where radiation and temperature variations are less severe and the prospects of life more likely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Is the Earth Safe From Lunar Contamination? | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

...replace those lost to graduation and injury. Most important the new faces had the poise and the confidence to come back, and keep coming back all year. Lalich found a couple of sophomore ends, Pete Varney and Bruce Freeman (of Redlands, California), and a defense that decided to dig in. Two fourth quarter touchdowns provided the margin as Harvard won its most important victory of the year...

Author: By Thomas P. Southwick, | Title: And Then We Won; Big Hole Was Dead | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

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