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...crackled across the South, the lunch-counter protest burned most vividly in tinder-dry Tennessee, where fortnight ago Chattanooga firemen were forced to turn hoses on several thousand rioting whites and Negroes. Last week the flames leaped to Nashville, as 500 Negroes surged through downtown variety, drug and department stores, left a wake of closed counters and pushed on to the Greyhound and Trailways bus terminals. Sixty-four Negro students were arrested, most of them for refusing to leave the Greyhound lunch counter while police searched for a reported bomb. Charged with violation of the city code, they at first...
...second munitions ship quickly cast off, was towed out of the danger area. Firemen worked close to the burning vessel. Then it exploded again, sending a shower of death through the crowd on the dock-and just missing Premier Castro, who had come whirling up in his helicopter to hover near the stricken ship. The initial counts put the dead at 75 to 100, the injured at more than...
...Randolph have been scrapping over the issue for months. Moderate Meany has steadily but quietly pressured unions to drop their color bars; in his 20 years of leadership the number of all white A.F.L. unions has dropped from 26 to only one - the 97,000-member Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. Even so, there are Jim Crow locals aplenty, and Randolph publicly criticized Meany at the union's convention last fall for not purging them. Meany blew up, roared at Randolph, "Who the hell appointed you as guardian of all Negroes in America?" Since then, Randolph has been...
COLOR BAR was erased by 200,000-member Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Move leaves only one union in A.F.L.-C.I.O. with ban on Negroes: the 87,000-man Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen...
...such throwback houses also have a drawback: they can be authentic, antique tinder heaps. Sparks from the Packards' roaring Yuletide log rose up the chimney, removed all chance of a visit from Santa by setting fire to the wood-shingled roof. Before the Packards (plus some 40 volunteer firemen) quenched the blaze; damage from the flames, axes and water amounted to about $20,000. But in the best Early American tradition, the Packards retrieved their Christmas present packages, opened them next day in their Federalist garage apartment...