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Dates: during 1950-1959
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VULCAN'S city burned with resentment last week as it waited for U.S. Attorney General William P. Rogers to make good on his promise to call the federal grand jury to investigate a possible violation of civil rights by Birmingham's police force. Six weeks ago Birmingham's cops arrested three Negro ministers from Montgomery who were caught talking with local Negro leaders about a possible bus boycott, charged them with vagrancy. Said Birmingham's police chief, Eugene Connor, who refused even to discuss the case with FBI agents: "I haven't got any damn...
...across the Kariba gorge to get the power needed for heavy industry and the copper mines. The dam would turn the Gwembe Valley into the world's largest man-made lake, storing 130 million acre-ft. of water-more than the combined capacity of the Shasta, Hoover and Grand Coulee dams in the American West. Soon the Kariba gorge, which had been inhabited only by crocodiles, hippos and an occasional Batonga hunter, echoed to the roar of earth-moving equipment...
...meantime, the Emperor and Empress will exchange gifts with the Shodas-a sea bream, the fish of good fortune, as well as sake and silk. Akihito will present his future wife with a jeweled sword to protect her chastity, and the Emperor will bestow on her the Grand Cordon of the Imperial Order of the Sacred Crown, the highest decoration given a woman in Japan. Finally, the young couple will exchange love poems, written on pink paper and enclosed in boxes made of willow...
...Promise . . ." One morning last week, in a northern sierra of this awakened land, twelve Tarahumare Indians, famed for their fleet feet, rose at dawn and began running south. Six days later (with an assist from a truck) they chuffed into the capital to honor the grand inauguration of Mexico's new President, Adolfo López Mateos, 48. It was a ceremony worthy of the effort. The setting was Mexico City's famed Palacio de Bellas Artes, an Italianate pile of marble as remote from today's Mexico as an igloo, despite murals by the famed...
MONTGOMERY, Ala.--Alabama officials and grand juries are weaving a barrier of legal red tape around voting records the federal Civil Rights Commission has subpoenaed for its first public hearing Monday...