Word: harrison
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Goldstein and two other COFO workers were arrested Thursday on charges of "picketing and mass demonstration and blocking the ingress and egress to the (Harrison County) courthouse." Eight COFO workers were accompanying ten Negroes to the courthouse to vote. The sheriff approached the courthouse steps and ordered all persons not residents of Harrison County to move to the other side of the street. Wiley and the two others refused to comply...
...trivia of the did-you-know variety: President Arthur was known as "His Accidency"; U. S. Grant found his wife's crossed eyes rather endearing; Andrew Jackson's wife ordered an inaugural veil with the name JACKSON stitched in lace letters from ear to ear; Mrs. Benjamin Harrison had 2,000 azalea plants delivered daily. A supple cast treats this material with greater respect than it merits, but The White House remains less of a tribute to the nation's highest office than a gossipy raid on its prestige...
...massive. Where in 1939 France's imposing showcase rose like a grandstand beside the Lagoon of Nations, now stands IBM's egg, poised above a fantastic forest of steel trees. Across the pool, hovers the huge coffin-on-props of the Bell Telephone building, designed by Harrison & Abramovitz and Henry Dreyfus...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Kay Kendall, in one of her most delightful performances, as stepmother to The Reluctant Debutante, with Rex Harrison and Sandra...
...Though Harrison's reporting had been somewhat lopsided, Tackett's retaliation raised grave questions. Can a judge stifle press comment on a case simply by deferring the sentence? Should a judge who is offended by press comments be permitted to try the offender? Most newsmen thought not. The Portales, N. Mex., News-Tribune called Harrison's sentence "one of the most flagrant examples of judicial stupidity that has come to the attention of New Mexicans in years. It poses a threat not only to a free press but to the public's right to criticize...