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...governor established a pro-Confederate government in exile; and martial law had to be imposed to keep the state under Union control. As recently as ten years ago, many of the smaller towns and parts of the larger ones had sundown ordinances prohibiting blacks from being present after dusk. In many places where there was no law, the practise was enforced. Many black men have been savagely beaten and not a few have been killed for being in the wrong place at the wrong time in Missouri...
...corridors of power. Great men whisper whispers while a stunned capitol awaits. Even the cherry blossoms along the Potomac seem to sense the magnitude. And magnitude there is. Yet magnitude there has been before, and the nation has survived. A mood of cautious optimism surged forward just at dusk. Then set the age-old sun behind these edifices of reason, and gloom once more descended. Yet gloom there has been, and in the end the nation has survived...Still, in this worried capitol tonight, men watch and men wait. So too do women and children in this worried capitol tonight...
...service that sends a team into any area where racial trouble is brewing. When Mafia Leader Joe Colombo was shot by a black in June, tension between blacks and Italian Americans mounted in some New York neighborhoods. Community-relations officers rushed to the scene and patrolled the streets from dusk till dawn along with police...
Trevino quit school after the seventh grade to work for the Glen Lakes greenkeeper. He caddied on the side, played a few holes at dusk, but took no serious interest in the game. That did not develop until after he joined the Marines at 17 and was shipped to Japan as a machine gunner. He picked up a tattoo, caroused around the bars, and got into fights with sailors. "I loved the Marines," he says. "I never knew anybody when I was a kid, and there I was around a bunch of guys my own age. Hell, I volunteered...
...people in the area outside of U.S. control come out only at dusk and dawn to try to grow enough rice and manioc to survive, but planes attack any sign of life. Anything moving is shot at-even trails and cultivated fields are bombed. Reportedly all strategic targets of any kind have been destroyed, and the bombing is now simply plowing up ground...