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Wilkins' broadside stunned the convention. Board Member Emmitt J. Douglas of Baton Rouge, La., grabbed a microphone on the convention floor and sharply rebuked Wilkins. "I resent allegations against board members unless they are named," snapped Douglas. Besides, he added, Wilkins was reneging on an agreement to retire at year's end. While some board members fretted privately that Wilkins might "kill the organization" with his inflammatory remarks, the N.A.A.C.P.'S rank and file were inclined to listen sympathetically to Wilkins' plea out of sentiment for his long service to the organization...
Bern Judge Jürg Sollberger has now ruled that the pamphlet's title was in fact defamatory, but he ordered the 13 people found guilty to pay only token fines: $120 each plus an additional $160 toward Nestlé's legal expenses. The judge also granted the Third World group a moral victory by commenting that Nestlé "must modify its publicity methods fundamentally." The defendants will appeal. Said one Nestlé spokesman: "Our marketing techniques are evolving all the time...
...spokesman for Middlesex County Sheriff John J. Buckley, president of People Vs. Handguns, a group which backs the handgun ban, said yesterday that placing the alternative measure on the ballot represents an attempt to cloud the issue and a "corruption of the petition process." He said People Vs. Handguns plans to go to court in the next few days to challenge its legitimacy...
...hard for those who did not actually live through those post-war years to appreciate the awfulness of that era. The main organs of villainy were the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. And among their agents were Representatives J. Parnell Thomas and Richard M. Nixon, Senators Pat McCarran and James O. Eastland. Citizens by the carload were hauled before the committees; and, as a result, dozens of writers, performers and other professionals were blacklisted and for years could not secure work in films, theatre, radio, television and other fields...
...structures to fill the voids. The trouble was that instead of creating new life and vigor downtown, the projects were all too often sterile and uninviting-reason enough, though there were others as well, for businesses and middle-class city dwellers to opt for the suburbs. In 1966 Edward J. Logue, then the highly respected chief of Boston's redevelopment program, succinctly defined the times. "We have raised the right to be ugly to the level of the Bill of Rights," he told a congressional subcommittee. "By the millions, American tourists have gone to Europe to walk the streets...