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...vacancies last spring. At two of the schools, the principals refused to let the Negro children into the classrooms since they did not have transfer slips from their Roxbury principals. At one of these, all the schoolchildren, white and black alike, were locked out until an unsuspecting janitor opened a door and the Exodus children streamed inside...
...letdown to rage. Many secretly or openly think that "violence is valuable" because "now people care about Watts." "I'm as full of hate as a rattlesnake is of poison," hisses a Negro in Montgomery. "There's people walking around mad all over here," an unemployed Memphis janitor says. A rich Harlem lawyer finds it reasonable that "anybody could get caught up in rioting like that." The Rev. Albert B. Cleage Jr., one of Detroit's most militant Negro leaders, reports that Negroes there "had a tremendous sense of sympathy and identity." Across the U.S., more moderate...
...North Yard Janitor, Owen Roberts, reported that he arrived on duty at 11 p.m. to find three other janitors engaged in a futile attempt to fumigate the phone booth. "We cleaned it for three hours, but the smell's still there," Roberts said "I suggested in my report to Buildings and Grounds that the phone booth be removed. I wish to hell they's flooded the cellar instead," he concluded rather bitterly...
...father had gone broke trading cotton, so Lyndon arrived on campus with just $75 borrowed from a Blanco bank and began earning $15 a month as a janitor. Yet board and room cost $30 a month. The school's kindly president, Dr. C. E. Evans, let Lyndon put a cot in a small room above Evans' garage. In return, Lyndon became Evans' long-striding legman, running errands all over campus. By eating just two meals a day, Lyndon cut his food expenses to $15 a month; his laundry cost 50? a week. When Lyndon ran short, Evans...
...year-old janitor, who is charged with the holdup of the Reliance Cooperative Bank on April 20, suffered a heart yesterday morning. He is listed "satisfactory" condition in a Brighton , but doctors are uncertain he will have recovered to testify at the hearing...