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...Jews were gassed in a closed truck: "All the time, I was trying to avert my gaze from what was going on. It was quite enough for me what I saw. The screaming and shrieking!" When the truck stopped at an open pit, "the corpses were hurled into the ditch. I also saw how teeth were being extracted. I entered my car and I did not want to look at this heinous act of turpitude...
...state's first sit-in demonstration at a public library-and duly got arrested. When 100 more Negroes applauded them two days later in front of the court, cops attacked with clubs, guns and police dogs. Yet the fact that Negroes even raised their heads in last-ditch Mississippi bespoke a new attitude...
...change anybody's mind. Lumumba, as Munongo told it, had escaped by stolen car from a farmhouse prison near the Portuguese Angola border, along with his Minister of Youth, Maurice Mpolo, and Senate Vice President Joseph Okito. The car ran out of gas. was found overturned in a ditch 45 miles away. Three days later, fleeing on foot, all three were "massacred by the inhabitants of a small village." The villagers "may have acted somewhat precipitously, though excusably," conceded Munongo, but he would pay them the $8,000 bounty that he had posted for Lumumba's head...
...last-ditch motion by Sen. Fred I. Lamson, Jr. of Malden, the legislation must come up for reconsideration today or Monday. Despite the delaying action, however, reliable sources expect it to pass the Senate and, subsequently, the House, without too much trouble...
Despite last-ditch efforts by Councilors Pearl K. Wise and Alfred E. Vellucci, and attorney Phillip Cronin '53, the Council voted not to amend the plan and thus to downgrade the controversial area from residence A-2 to residence C-1 and C-2. The former category allows only for one single family home per lot, while the latter embraces multi-family dwellings up to 85 feet high...