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...LOUISIANA. A Negro was shot after trying to eat at a lunch stand, but most of the better New Orleans restaurants served Negroes. Many restaurants in bitter Shreveport became private clubs rather than welcome Negroes. After a long court battle, stubbornly segregationist St. Helena Parish gave up, integrated its schools. Louisiana State University and New Orleans kindergartens also opened their doors to Negroes. Negro voter registration, however, was virtually stalled; fewer than 1,000 signed...
...rank entitled them to arm chairs). Worst of all, Napoleon's addled brothers got the notion that they were supposed to rule over their various subjects rather than act as emissaries for the Emperor. "If I made one of my brothers a king," said Napoleon bitterly at St. Helena, "he imagined that he was king by the grace...
...been executed for misgovernment, leaving the Emperor Constantius and Julian as the last male survivors of the imperial line. With Gaul threatened by the Alamanni, Constantius reluctantly bestowed on Julian the title of Caesar and gave him both the government of Gaul and the hand of his sister Helena...
...them she was a rough customer. So could the Revson boys. But all she looked like was a fragile little old lady, so these three tough guys, dressed up in blue delivery boy's suits and wrap-around sunglasses, broke into the 26-room Park Avenue triplex of Helena Rubinstein, who may or may not be 92 (her age is a bigger secret than her formulas). "Open the safe or we'll kill you," snarled the head hood. "Go ahead," she sneered. "I've lived my life. You can kill me, but I'm not going...
King did not deny Shakhov's charge that St. Helena's present-day population has an infant mortality rate of 33.6 per 1,000. Instead, he referred the Russian to the U.N. statistical yearbook, which lists several European nations as having even higher rates. Among them: "Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Rumania and the Soviet Union...