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That night, as if in bitter mockery of the day's festivities, racial peace was shattered in Drew. One of the graduating seniors, a comely 18-year-old black girl named Jo-Etha Collier, was walking down a street crowded with other youngsters celebrating the end of the school year. A green Ford passed by, then people on the street heard the report of a gun, and Jo-Etha slumped to the ground. She had been shot below the ear and was bleeding heavily; she died before reaching the hospital...
...Jo-Etha was a most unlikely target for a killer's bullet. Popular with her classmates, she had starred on the girls' basketball and track teams and had received a specially created award for her school spirit. She had been planning to attend nearby Mississippi Valley State College in the fall. "It was a senseless act of violence," said Drew Mayor W.O. Williford. "It's just unexplainable...
Writing the cover story was another Georgian, Contributing Editor B.J. (for Billie Jo) Phillips. Born in rural Hampton, she grew up in a clapboard house replete with lilac-laced trellis and front porch. Phillips recalls that trucks used to oil the dirt road in front of her house to keep the dust down and that Hampton phone numbers "were particularly easy to remember. They consisted of only two digits." At age eleven, she tried cotton picking: "I can still feel the burlap bag cutting into my shoulder." Twelve years later she dropped out of the University of Georgia to work...
...most prominent educators and businessmen, as well as some 500 students. Among at least seven University of Dacca professors who were executed without apparent reason was the head of the philosophy department, Govinda Chandra Dev, 65, a gentle Hindu who believed in unity in diversity. Another victim was Jo-gesh Chandra Ghosh, 86, the invalid millionaire chemist. Ghosh, who did not believe in banks, was dragged from his bed and shot to death by soldiers who looted more than $1 million in rupees from his home...
...EVANS as Figaro has a strong and mature voice, although his bearings and mannerisms are perhaps a bit too ingenuous for the part. Jo Ella Todd holds her own as Susanna, with a clear-voiced elegance and presence. Richard Gill's voice is made for Italian opera, and a good makeup and costuming job made a convincing Count Almaviva out of him, while Elizabeth Phinney, who has the commanding character of the Countess down to a science, was the best of the female leads...