Word: highway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the massacre of eight Negro convicts at a Georgia highway camp last July (TIME, July 2 et seq.), a Glynn County grand jury decided that Warden H. G. Worthy and four camp guards were justified in firing on the prisoners. Last week, at nearby Savannah, a federal grand jury thought differently. It indicted the warden and his guards for depriving the Negroes of their lives without due process...
Sliced about the face: Roddy McDowall, 18, gangly cinemactor; in a head-on highway collision, near Santa Monica Beach...
This week Marlboro College is ready to open its doors, officially on schedule, but there is still plenty of work to be done. The dirt road from Molly Stark Highway to Potash Hill needs a macadam surface. The college "laboratories"-war-surplus huts from an army air base-have not arrived...
...critic, has brought him more money than it ever brought Joan of Arc, and a lot more publicity than she enjoyed in her lifetime. In contrast to his tight scholarly writing (says this critic), Lewis' Christian propaganda is cheap sophism: having lured his reader onto the straight highway of logic, Lewis then inveigles him down the garden path of orthodox theology...
...their own racial problems. Last week, in two isolated instances, the South was trying to make good the claim: ¶ Georgia's Department of Corrections, helped by the FBI, started new investi' gations into the killing last July 11 of eight Negro convicts at the Glynn County highway camp (TIME, July 28). A special grand jury had previously exonerated Warden H. G. Worth and the four guards who shot them. Meanwhile, the state acted to prevent a similar massacre; in Charlton County, it abolished its last remaining highway camp. ¶ In North Carolina, seven white men exonerated...