Word: knighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...While L.B.J. is trying so desperately to give an image of the Great White Knight or of Robin Hood creating a Sherwood Forest, I am reminded of another childhood tale, The Tar Baby. As the President's honey-toned, sugar-coated words come dripping from your pages or a radio, I find myself smothering an immense urge to warn all the little rabbits: "Don't be fooled, 'cause once you're stuck, you can't get unstuck...
...fled when she screamed. Security guards were late in responding because they had been called to another part of the building to investigate an attempted purse-snatching. Last week additional guards were assigned to the building, and the head of the department's Passport Office, Miss Frances G. Knight, went a step further. She issued a directive urging female employees to "stand near the alarm button whenever riding elevators" and to "always work in teams," ordered that male employees, upon request, escort girls to the basement parking garage or the building's sign-out desk after regular working...
...therefore enraged when town and county cops turned their backs while whites beat and otherwise harassed civil rights marchers in Bogalusa a couple of weeks ago. Christenberry cited Bogalusa's Public Safety Commissioner Arnold Spiers, Police Chief Claxton Knight, and Patrolman Donald Penton for civil contempt of court. Last week, during hearings, the judge was further enraged to see films of Bogalusa demonstrations which showed whites waving Confederate flags everywhere. "Except on the post office, are there any American flags there anywhere?" he asked. When some courtroom spectators laughed, Christenberry went on: "This is a serious business. Every picture...
...hearings, the judge found Spiers, Knight and Penton guilty, but he imposed no penalties immediately. Instead, Christenberry gave Spiers and Knight seven days to create and implement a security plan for Bogalusa's civil rights workers. Failure to do so, he warned, would mean fines of $100 a day for each. Failure to comply will also put Knight and Spiers in the custody of the U.S. Attorney General, who would then have the power to jail them or treat them like parolees. Penton got off with what amounted to a warning...
...Bankrupt. Heyns undertook the Berkeley job at no financial loss: his $35,000 salary is about what he earned at Michigan. "Let's get one thing straight," he told reporters. "I don't regard the University of California as some kind of bankrupt organization that needs some knight in shining armor from the East to come in as a kind of domestic peace corps. I think Berkeley is a little chagrined and would like to settle down and get back to work...