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...under the 14th Amendment to allow the Negroes free access to white schools. More than half the Negroes transferred, leaving their old school near-defunct. Now the N.A.A.C.P. is battling for desegregation in at least 60 target areas from Connecticut to California: ∙Nine communities, from Newark. N.J., to Eloy, Ariz., have voluntarily desegregated. In more than 14 other communities, about half around New York City, the N.A.A.C.P. has filed federal suits or complaints with state officials. In Englewood. N.J.. a Negro store boycott is being urged by Negro Lawyer Paul Zuber. who filed the original New Rochelle suit...
...businessman (Panama hats) named Eloy Alfaro came to power, began a half century of Liberal Party control, marked by anticlericalism, e.g., confiscation of huge church estates, enactment of some of South America's first divorce laws. He built the buckety Quito-Guayaquil railroad. Then in 1912, Eloy Alfaro overreached for a third term, and the army handed him over to the fickle mob, which tore him limb from limb...
Under the glare of three floodlights, Marks marched former Batista Police Lieut. Eloy Contreras to a bullet-scarred wall, 36 feet from the firing squad. "Atención!" yelled Marks at 1:13 a.m. "Preparen . . . apunten . . . fuego!" After the volley, Marks stepped up to Contreras' writhing body, fired the coup de grâce with his .45 automatic-then had to shoot two more times before his man finally died. Guards took off Contreras' shoes, fingerprinted him, placed him in a plain wooden coffin, and loaded him aboard a hearse for delivery to waiting relatives...
...Harems went ages ago, but the harem mentality lives on," complained another. The former dean of Madrid University's Law School even gave ground. "I see no serious objection to granting women the right to be witnesses to a will," said Don Eloy Montero, "even if they have a reputation of being somewhat talkative . . ." Warned a Catholic priest: "Beware of the many ways of heresy . . . Woman must be, in the words of the Apostles, 'subject to her husband.' " But all in all, Senora Formica felt encouraged...
...police, the army officers rummaged endlessly through Calhoun's luggage, even split open the linings of his bags. Then they searched his pockets. When they found the newspaper clippings, they smiled in triumph. The clippings were from the Havana weekly Bohemia. Among them was an article by Andres Eloy Blanco, Foreign Minister in the ousted Gallegos regime. It described an exchange of letters between Harry Truman and Gallegos on U.S. recognition of the military junta that overthrew Gallegos. * To the representatives of Venezuela's revolutionary government, such a document was subversive...