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WHEN I got to Mulligan's Junction, Ga., on my trip South, I wanted to go on to Pelican Swamp, and I asked the old Yankee conductor of the Lightning Express when it would leave for that point. "Wal," he replied, chimerically, "if Bill gets the wood sawed and split for the ingine, and- let's see- tomorrow's the 1st of the month, that's washin-day, if Nancy, that 'ere old niggeress don't use up all the water, and if there should happen to be another feller or missis going your way, and if there...
...black-and-white page). The first issues will have a press run of 400,000 copies, and include, among others, the Gandhi and Garbo stories. Chief resuscitator of the magazine is Robert Whiteman, 45, a soft-spoken entrepreneur who once sold Liberty door-to-door in Savannah, Ga., and purchased the remnants in 1965. Into the bargain went 1,387 covers and some 17,000 pieces of editorial material, enough, Whiteman figures, "to last us 100 years, even if we go monthly...
...side in the war has a monopoly on such horrors. The Communists have committed more than their share of atrocities. At the My Lai trial in Fort Benning, Ga., Radio Operator Robert van Leer told of how the Viet Cong dealt with one captured American soldier. They fitted a bird-cage-like device around his head, said Van Leer, then filled it with live rats...
...Similarly, a white Augusta, Ga., policeman was acquitted last week on charges of violating the civil rights of a black teen-ager killed in rioting last May. At the height of the riot, in which six blacks were killed, Private William S. Dennis fired a shotgun into a grocery store that was being looted. John W. Stokes, 19, was killed when nine pellets entered his back. The state refused to press charges, but a federal grand jury indicted Dennis, and the Justice Department attempted to prove that the force used in Stokes' death was excessive. The all-white jury...
...Fort Benning, Ga., it was 0600?reveille hour?but no bugle sounded. So SP/4C Terry Reed dozed blissfully until 7 a.m. Reveille has gone out of style at Fort Benning; all a soldier need do is get to his first duty post on time...