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They will work in the Cambridge National Guard Armory, which is to be the central clearing house for new coverage of election returns in Massachusetts. Most of the students will work as telephone operators, clerks, and messengers. Fourteen, however, most of them graduate students, will have supervisory positions...
...TENNESSEE. Nashville, Memphis and Knoxville accepted the public accommodations provision of the civil rights bill gracefully. Fourteen school districts were newly-and peacefully-integrated. Some 15,000 Negroes joined voter registration rolls...
...late evening hours, two small, fast boats swooped down on the vessel and raked it with repeated machine-gun bursts at a range of 20 to 30 yards. The captain and two crewmen were mortally wounded. The rest of the crew abandoned ship, which was now on fire. Fourteen hours after the attack, the lifeboat carrying all 20 crew members, eight of them wounded, two dead and one soon to die, was spotted by a U.S. Coast Guard plane, and a Dutch freighter sped to their rescue, carrying them to Great Inagua...
House G.O.P. Leader Charlie Halleek, for one, thought that this was less than cricket. Fourteen House Republicans are members of their party's national convention Platform Committee, which starts work in San Francisco on July 6. Those members quite understandably would like to be on hand to shape the platform, and Halleck had been aiming for a July 3-20 House recess. Now he ruefully recalled the help that he and his G.O.P. colleagues had given Johnson on civil rights: "Memories are real short around here...
...guide told us we were directly under the Drive. That we could not hear anything of the traffic overhead was probably due to the thickness of the Tunnel roof--fourteen inches of reinforced concrete. In front of Dunster House the Tunnel is so close to the surface that the top of its roof is the sidewalk. No snow, you may have noticed, ever accumulates on the walk in front of Dunster House...