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...astonished women in a Pontiac, then a police motorcycle. Lieut. M.E. Nichols, appraising the danger by radio, avoided roadblocks already sealing off routes to the Lorraine Motel (the black-owned motel where the King entourage was staying) and escorted the Pontiac under siren to the uptown Rivermont Holiday Inn...
...news contacts, "King led the marchers to violence, and when the violence broke out, King disappeared." A gossipy addition highlighted the place of refuge. "The fine Hotel Lorraine in Memphis is owned and patronized exclusively by Negroes," stated the propaganda sheet, but King had chosen instead "the plush Holiday Inn Motel, white owned, operated and almost exclusively white patronized." By April 2, Hoover formally requested permission to reinstall wiretaps at SCLC. Two days later, the Mississippi FBI office sent headquarters a two-pronged counterintelligence program, or COINTELPRO, proposal, first, to breed confusion and resentment on King's poverty tours...
...professor of engineering at Columbia University died in a hotel room last Thursday. Police reported the case as a suicide. He was 43. Professor Nayyar Perwez Shahabuddin’s body was found in the Days Inn on Route 59 in Nanuet in Rockland County, New York, which is on his route home from work. He had been missing since last Wednesday night. The Clarkstown Police Department, which discovered the body, refused to comment on the case, and the death is still being investigated. However, Rockport’s The Journal News reported on Monday that police had found...
MABLE BROWN'S NEW JOB isn't what you would call spectacular. She works at a red stucco, French Quarter--themed Doubletree Inn in the suburbs of Atlanta, cleaning rooms for $7.15 an hour. But Brown, 27, isn't complaining. She doesn't get health insurance, but her employers are supportive. And she makes enough to afford the $595 rent for the ground floor of a duplex she found to share with her daughters Vivian, 13, and Angeline, 9, on a cul-de-sac off a quiet, wooded street in Marietta, Ga. "It's just us," Brown contentedly told TIME...
...allow that.” Undergraduates aren’t the only Harvard students headed to the game: about 100 people will be on buses organized by HLCentral, an organization for Harvard Law School (HLS) students, and the law school social organization Lincoln’s Inn. Tickets for those buses, now sold out, cost $10 and included round-trip transportation on Saturday, hamburgers, hot dogs, and “lots of beer,” according to Clark C. Severson, director for excursions for HLCentral. An email advertising the shuttle promised “the closest you?...