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...even Mummy Brown is gone altogether. Geoffrey Roberson-Park, managing director of London's venerable C. Roberson color makers, regretfully admits that the firm has run out of mummies. "We might have a few odd limbs lying around somewhere," he apologized, "but not enough to make any more paint. We sold our last complete mummy some years ago for, I think, ?3. Perhaps we shouldn't have. We certainly can't get any more...
...Freedom house in Batesville, Miss., where Kathie Amatniek '64, L. Geoffrey Cowan '64, and Claude Weaver '65 were living, was bombed with tear gas on July 27. Fears that the tear gas attack was only a prelude to stronger action (as threatened in numerous phone calls to the house) proved unfounded...
Kathie Amatniek '64, L. Geoffrey Cowan '64, and Claude Weaver '65 were staying in the home of Robert J. Miles, a Panola County civil rights leader, when the incident occured. A car drove up in front of the house, someone got out and threw a grenade on the roof. The car sped away as Cowan, Miles, Weaver, Miss Amatniek, and two other COFO workers ran out of the house to escape the fumes...
...surrounding county suburbs. Gracious mansions became tenements. By 1952, the city was one-quarter slum, another quarter near slum. No new office buildings had been put up in 25 years. Industry pulled out in wholesale lots. Property values and business activity plunged. "You might ask," wrote English Author Geoffrey Grigson in 1951, "why anyone would be proud of such a dump...
...Geoffrey Goodman, industrial correspondent of the Daily Herald, maintained that readjustment to a less important role in world affairs is one of the chief problems of modern England. Until the cancellation of an English invasion of the Suez Canal Zone in 1956 because of lack of power. Britain felt that her important world position had not changed. Readjustment is a problem, Goodman said, but at least the problem is recognized...