Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Prathia Laura Ann Hall was in bad trouble. It was not just her modest misdemeanor - violating Georgia's antitrespass law during a motel sit-in. The 23-year-old Negro girl faced a far more formidable fate in the person of Judge Durwood T. Pye of Fulton County (Atlanta) Superior Court. Pye, the South's toughest judge in civil rights cases, set bail at a fantastic...
Dupe Sheets. Though Amann's measures caused nearly 1,500 newspaper casualties, the German press went docilely to its fate...
...TROJAN WOMEN, directed by Michael Cacoyannis from a translation by Edith Hamilton, gives U.S. theatergoers a rare sense of the power, agony, and cyclonic passion of the Euripidean classic. It movingly depicts the fate of a handful of proud women terrifyingly caught in the tormenting clutch of war and their Greek conquerors...
Ruby or Belli? Sir-However one might feel about the fate of Jack Ruby [March 27] or the state of affairs in Dallas, it is hard not to be gratified by the much-deserved and long-deserved defeat of Melvin Belli. His notorious record of malpractice suits won on histrionics and little or no substantial evidence suggests that justice might be more fairly dispensed by a jury of Texans than by a jury of Californians. JAMES W. MACINNES Chicago...
...shaken by the overthrow of President Diem's regime in South Viet Nam last fall, convinced that it was engineered by the U.S. He decided that a similar fate might befall him if he leaned on the U.S. too much. Abruptly he told Washington to stop aid-later typically complaining that U.S. officials had acted on his request too hastily. He recalled his ambassador to Washington, renewed old charges that the CIA was behind a clandestine radio operated by his domestic opposition. He was also still convinced that when he received a "present" from an unknown donor...