Word: duncan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...oldest and largest plants. Yet it is more than a plant and more than a relic. With huge trunks soaring hundreds of feet into the sky, a forest of Sequoia sempervirens is a life unto itself, binding a despoiled planet to its pristine past. As California Naturalist Duncan McDuffie said: "To enter a grove of redwoods is to step within the portals of a cathedral more beautiful and more serene than any erected by the hands...
...DUNCAN A. BUELL...
...small sacrifice for Attorney Richard B. Sobol to help defend Gary Duncan, a Negro boat captain accused of cruelty to juveniles in Plaquemines Parish, La. To handle Duncan's case and to aid other Southern Negroes, Sobol gave up a comfortable $24,000-a-year post with a top Washington, D.C., law firm and joined a group of attorneys who are serving the civil rights movement...
Following standard procedure, Sobol, who had not been admitted to the Louisiana bar, argued the Plaquemines case in association with a local lawyer. After appearing four times without objection, he was suddenly arrested and charged with practicing without a license. Another lawyer took over the defense, and Duncan was found guilty because he touched a white boy on the arm while breaking up a threatened fight. The U.S. Supreme Court eventually reversed the conviction. Meanwhile, Sobol decided to fight his own case and went to federal court to get his trial stopped...
They draw on eyewitness accounts of battle from 44 TIME-LIFE correspondents, and have culled memorable pictures from TIME and LIFE files. Some of the reports remain lodged in memory. There is, for example, Photographer David Douglas Duncan's report of how a howling mob of Hindus and Sikhs in Delhi flailed to death a six-year-old Moslem girl carrying her baby brother; TIME Correspondent James Bell's terse account of weary American troops fighting for No Name Ridge in Korea; Photographer Andrew St. George's file on a Castro patrol's foolhardy attempt...