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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Birmingham's best-known Negro leader, the Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, a tough, thick-skinned, egocentric sort, has had his home bombed, his church bombed. Arrests in the case to date: nil. So Shuttlesworth has taken his protection into his own hands, now musters a guard of a dozen or so Negro volunteers at his church and home every night on shifts dusk to dawn...
...John Llewellyn Lewis still has a thick, flowing mane and a fearsome roar. He no longer bares his claws at Presidents, Congress and the federal courts; six years have passed since he last called his United Mine Workers out on a major strike. But last week, old John L. showed that his roar can still jolt the coal industry. The mere threat of a U.M.W. strike was enough to make unionized soft-coal operators accept costly new contract terms, topped by a $2-a-day wage boost, which will bring the union miner's standard...
...L'Homme et L'Hommerie. Raised by Roman Catholic missionaries in Mindouli, 100 miles west of Brazzaville, Youlou started his career as a simple parish priest. But he had always had a penchant for politics. Over the protests of his archbishop, he decided to run for the French National Assembly. He was forbidden by his archbishop to say Mass, though he still wears black or white cassocks, topped by a Homburg. He lost the election, but while his opponent went off to Paris, the abbé's admirers refused to believe that he had lost, and took...
...l Salinas Lozano, 41, Secretary of Economy. A top economist and Ruiz Cortines' president of the National Commission on Investments, he has written a definitive study entitled Possibilities of Foreign Capital Investments in Mexico...
...closer cooperation between the Student Council and the House Committees was given by Andrew L. Warshaw '59, at last night's Council meeting...