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Equally remarkable light-pieces were developed by Newton Harrison (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) and Rockne Krebs (Hewlett-Packard Co.). Harrison's room is dark, and in it stand five tall plastic cylinders. They are filled with helium, argon and other gases. When an electric current passes through the cylinders, the ionized gas lights up-rose-white, orange, deep blues, greens and purples. By controlling the gas flow, Harrison produces extraordinary changes of form in the light-bubbles, disks, even artificial lightning. The effect is solemn and exquisitely meditative; it is also wholly pictorial, without a hint of gimmickry. The room...
...John Hewlett, the new sheriff for Lowndes County in Alabama, and Rev. Thomas Gilmore, the sheriff for Green County, discussed their experiences at a press conference yesterday. Both men were elected in counties where blacks now constitute a majority of the voters as a result of the 1965 registration drives. They are the first black sheriffs in their counties...
...Hewlett comes to the office of sheriff from five years of local community organization work. His group first ran black candidates for county office in 1966. This year's election is the firstin which any of them...
Unlike Gilmore's Green County, there has been no civil rights violence involving the local residents in Lowndes County, Hewlett said. However, Lowndes County was the scene of the killing in 1965 of Mrs. Viola Liuzzo, a white civil rights worker from Detroit...
Lowndes County is a largely rural area. Hewlett describes the main law enforcement problems as bootleg whiskey and public gambling. He said that there are only a few robberies each year...