Word: ga
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...line and a radio-telephone hookup linked him with the Administration's field force in Tuscaloosa: a team of U.S. marshals and Justice Department officials, headed by Deputy Attorney General Nicholas de Belleville Katzenbach, a big, balding man who is even tougher than he talks. At Fort Benning, Ga., 400 Army troops, specially trained for riot duty, sat in helicopters, ready to spin away to Tuscaloosa if they were needed...
...cemented friendships for the Navy on Capitol Hill with his frank answers, booming voice and earthy humor. Georgia's Carl Vinson, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, likes Korth so much that he took him along home recently to meet all the Vinson relatives in Milledgeville, Ga...
...community protest. In Birmingham, retailers have averaged a $750,000 weekly loss, some because Negro trade boycotted stores, some because whites did not venture downtown for fear of possible violence. "The boycott seems to be moderating," says one businessman. "But it has been effective all right." In Macon, Ga., last year, Negroes discontinued riding buses to protest segregated seating, came back only after the bus company, suffering a 50% fare loss, capitulated. Charleston, S.C., Negroes won 16 clerks' jobs by selective buying, tightened their boycott with weekly "name the traitor" meetings at which line breakers were singled out. Negro...
Clear Melancholy. Ever since his good days began, with his first hit record (I Got a Woman) eight years ago, Charles has been steadily plagued by souvenirs from sadder times. He was born in Albany, Ga., blinded by illness at six, orphaned at 15, addicted to narcotics at 16. He went to school just long enough to learn Braille, at 17 struck out with a trio; soon he was in Seattle playing ersatz Nat King Cole, and he kept at it well into his 20s. Then, in a flash of insight, he decided to be himself. He began singing...
...York officials discovered bad tuna sold under a Dagim Tahorim kosher label, sent inspectors to hundreds of groceries to search for the suspect cans. WY2 and WY3 cans also turned up in Cleveland, and inspectors searched out Washington Packing shipments to stores in Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago and Augusta, Ga...