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...Awash in drink and glory, Newman finds his fingers filling up with whisky, and lets Gleason clean him out. Then, like all the fallen heroes in the legends, he goes down into the underworld. At an all-night coffee counter in a Greyhound bus depot he meets a puffy-pretty alcoholic (Piper Laurie), huts up with her and, whenever he needs money, hustles suckers in low poolrooms where he is not known. One night he takes the wrong chump. Four wharf rats gang him and break his thumbs-a mythological emasculation if ever there was one. Soon after that...
...boys were arrested at a Woolworth store, and the others at a Greyhound Bus depot after they had failed to heed advice from the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee to protest at a state institution instead of on private property...
...boss of Atlas Corp., retired last year at 68 to his Indio, Calif., ranch, the smart money bet that it would not last. Odlum, the argument ran, was constitutionally incapable of slowing down after 37 years of buying, revitalizing, and selling off such companies as Paramount Pictures, Hilton Hotels, Greyhound Corp., Bonwit Teller and Atlantic Refining. Last week, after 16 months of restless ease, Odlum proved the smart money right, swung back into action as chairman of Salt Lake City's Federal Resources Corp. Federal's assets are a paltry (for Odlum) $6.6 million in beryllium, uranium...
Joseph Perkins, field secretary of the Congress on Racial Equality and one of the original riders on the Greyhound bus that was burned at Anniston, Ala., said, "We don't feel we should stop our major offensive. We should continue until we have reached our objective." The audience, evenly divided between Negroes and whites, applauded loudly...
Perkins described the Greyhound's trip through the Carolinas and Georgia as relatively peaceful, but he said, once the bus passed into Alabama, people began to taunt, "You ain't in Georgia now. You in Alabama." He told how a mob burned the bus after stopping it a few miles out of Anniston and throwing a fire bomb through a window...