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DENMARK. The Danish modern pavilion of glass and latticed woods has a fine restaurant that serves the traditional grand cold table heaped with herring, salmon and other goodies...
DENMARK. The modern Danish restaurant has a sumptuous det store kolde bord (cold table) that includes herring, salads, lobster, salmon and eight different meats. The akvavit comes packed in ice - and packs a wallop...
While booking them-Chaney for speeding, and Schwerner and Goodman "for investigation"-Mrs. Millie Herring, wife of the jailer, wrote "Negro male" after each man's name, then scratched out the entry beside Schwerner's and Goodman's and penned in "white." Said she later: "I declare, I was just so confused I wrote it wrong." All three were questioned, fed a meal of spoon bread, green peas, potatoes and salad by Mrs. Herring. Then, after Chancy paid a $20 fine, they were told to get out of the county...
...cannot even be found in angling encyclopedias. There is the bobo, or bubblefish, an elusive silverside that dwells in the rapids and attacks a wet fly like something good to eat. There is the machaca, an acrobatic inhabitant of still-water pockets that looks like a cross between a herring and a white shad and often leaps itself spectacularly ta death when hooked. And there is the lavender-hued guapote, a tasty pan fish that weighs anywhere from 2 to 12 Ibs., can sever a sturdy" wire leader with one crunch of its needle-sharp teeth...
Wary of the old red herring of "outside agitation," Negro groups traditionally have been careful to class their few Northern volunteers as "helpers" and not "instigators." The 1964 plan however, calls for an invasion of "over 1000 Peace-Corps-type volunteers," in order to "shake Mississippi out of the Middle Ages...