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...frustration in the Boston civil rights movement that Negro parents have finally decided to bypass the conventional forms of protest and do the only thing that can get their children into decent schools. For the last two years de facto segregation has been a focus of the Hub's civil rights activity. There have been two school boycotts, one in 1963 and another in 1964, but the School Committee has refused to recognize the issue...
This morning they go big-time, starting production on a Desilu movie "Feeling Good," formerly "Rock Around the Hub." They'll pose in the Yard, then move on to the Boston Common to titillate 500 select Boston teeny-boppers with some more eye-popping sound...
...against North Viet Nam have been directed primarily against what air intelligence officers like to call the "ganglia" of Communist transportation and communications. Right from the start, the most dangling ganglion of the lot has been Vinh, the largest town in the panhandle of North Viet Nam, and the hub of road, rail and trail routes to the south. Last week U.S. Air Force and Navy planes once again pasted Vinh-this time with 77 tons of bombs. The prime targets now lie closer to Hanoi, and there last week the U.S. lost another fighter-bomber to North Vietnamese surface...
...circumstances that lured all three groups toward Atlanta were, in a way, the same that impelled Sherman. Atlanta is the hub of the South; it has fine transportation (good roads, superb air service), and is an important center of population. Within a 200-mile radius live 10 million folks who yearn for major league sport. The closest baseball team of significance is the Cincinnati Reds, 450 miles away; the nearest pro football is in St. Louis, 550 miles away. The city's handsome new stadium seats 51,000 for baseball, 57,000 for football. And that is just...
...from the elections in the interests of "national harmony and unity." Almost on cue, a series of noisy protest demonstrations erupted among pro-Barrientos peasants in Cochabamba and Sucre, south of La Paz. The peasants set up roadblocks along the highways, invaded and occupied Cochabamba Airport, the air communications hub of Bolivia. At that, Barrientos himself flew down to Cochabamba, and announced that he was putting off the elections...