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...Sturgis crowd was on hand again for last week's school opening-and so were eight state troopers, thoughtfully dispatched to the scene by the Chandler administration. Seventeen Negro students arriving at the high school were jeered. A few handfuls of gravel and four or five empty soda-pop cans were tossed, but the presence of the cops held off real trouble. Next morning the crowd was down from about 300 to about 100-and the trooper force boomed to 30. The cops were not trying to make trouble ("If these people will only meet us halfway," implored...
...pine-hemmed camp site overlooking northern California's Lake Shasta was cool and quiet, and the C. V. Cadwalla-ders, camped out there, had nothing more on their minds than a restful lunch. Then came a rising sound of motor traffic, a cloud of dust, the rasp of gravel on rubber as four automobiles slid to a stop near by. From the lead car bounded a bulky, shirtsleeved figure who plunged through the manzanita bush like a startled bull moose, thrust a hand at Mr. Cadwallader, announced simply: "I'm Senator Knowland." After five minutes of picture taking...
Amid well-raked gravel walks and faultlessly kept gardens in the suburbs of Darmstadt (pop. 125,000) stands one of the most unusual convents in Germany. No casual visitor to the Sisterhood of St. Mary would notice what makes it different; like most Roman Catholic nuns, its 58 sisters wear wedding rings symbolizing their spiritual marriage to Christ, use religious names, make confession regularly, and practice a special devotion to the Virgin Mary. What makes them unusual is that they are Protestants...
...president, Manu-Mine had cozily acted as the commission's consultant, contractor (without competitive bidding) and official inspector of its own work, received an "exorbitant" $7,000,000 (of the total $19.5 million in contracts) for drilling useless holes to fill abandoned coal mines with sand and gravel along the turnpike's right of way. Prosperous little Manu-Mine's big profit: over...
...during King Saud's state visit to Baghdad last May, the oil-rich Saudis will hire international contractors to draw some 35 million gallons daily at a point near the site of ancient Ur, purify it at the riverside plant, and pipe it some 450 miles across the gravel plains, the heat-parched desert and rocky ridges to the ancestral Saudi oasis that has mushroomed into the modern, air-conditioned, palace-crammed capital city of Riyadh...