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...deliberation, it took less than three minutes for Courtroom Clerk Mrs. Sue Richmond to declare seven men guilty of a conspiracy that began when Meridian's White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan voted to "eliminate" Schwerner for running a Negro community center and culminated when the lynch mob bulldozed three bullet-stitched corpses into an earthen dam. One of the men convicted was Neshoba County Chief Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price, 29, who set up the killings by arresting the young activist for speeding; another was Samuel H. Bowers Jr., 42, the White Knights' Imperial Wizard. They face...
...there was the inevitable round of tasteless gossip and sick jokes. "Do you know what Smith said to Rusk at the altar?" runs one gibe. " 'Awright, now stand down, honkey!'" In New York, Black Power Agitator Lincoln Lynch denounced Rusk as a "subconscious racist" and added, only half in jest: "I wonder to what lengths Dean Rusk has to go in order to gain support for his and Johnson's war in Viet Nam." Studs Terkel, a Chicago writer and radio commentator, had nothing against the wedding, but as an Administration detractor could not resist a crack...
...repealed and human nature changes. But responsible men have begun to worry. Both Funston and American Exchange President Ralph Saul have warned their member brokers not to abet ill-advised speculation; in some cases the exchanges have stopped trading in risky stocks temporarily or require 100% margin. Giant Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith recently dusted off an advertisement that reminds investors that Wall Street runs two ways. Securities & Exchange Commission Chairman Manuel F. Cohen has his investigators scrutinizing for possible fraud 45 companies whose stock is actively traded; previously the Government had secured indictments against 22 brokers, bankers, lawyers...
...fear Negroes are inspiring among the white population fails to point out the very real and justified fear that black Americans have learned to live with in order to survive. I wonder if white Americans are frightened by the same things that scare us. Do they think we will lynch them? Burn their churches and homes? Sick our police dogs on them? Refuse to hire them? Or are they afraid that we might simply wish to be free from dependence and continued exploitation...
...only are cashiers in short supply; banks that act as transfer agents have sometimes run out of certificate blanks for certain actively traded companies. "It's getting to the point," says one executive at Merrill Lynch, Pierce...