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...route of the march, granted special permission to take photographs inside the courthouse. A pressroom was set up in the Carnegie Library next door to the courthouse, with enough desks, telephones, coffee and doughnuts for everyone. When the time came for the march, city police provided a special protective escort for the Negroes...
When the system was first introduced, Spits said, the Cliffies were reluctant to come to meals without an escort. Within the last year, however, more girls, especially those from Jordan J, have begun to drop in for dinner...
...King may not as of yet succumbed to Southern brutality and a toothbrush may accompany him to his cell, but your implication that he either lacks courage or the willingness to dirty his hands is in poor taste. Dr. King may get a police escort when he speaks in Boston, but whenever he travels through the Deep South (and he does so frequently), and whenever he defies its leaders and flaunts its laws, he exhibits courage of the highest sort...
...House until nearly 9 a.m. He let it be known that his staffers could attend a State Department farewell cocktail party for longtime Presidential Assistant Ralph Dungan, who has been named Ambassador to Chile. They attended, and they carefully came as individuals, not as part of Johnson's escort. And they insisted, one and all, that they had no intention of leaving Lyndon Johnson...
...alone, dear," says Lady Bird Johnson, seated at the breakfast table with her husband. "You can refer to him by name instead of 'my opponent.' " ∙Gushes the sweet young thing to her studious male escort: "I guess I am to you what Cuba is to Russia-friendly, but expensive!" ∙To the police sergeant, the patrolman explains a fact of modern life: "You can tell the delinquents who come from affluent families-instead of razors they use electric carving knives!" These needle-sharp political gibes are the work of James O. Berry, 32, whose cartoon feature, Berry...