Word: marches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MOST OF the Courier's readers are rural Negroes in the Black Belt of Alabama and Mississippi (during the Meredith March from Memphis to Jackson last summer, the Courier distributed free copies along the route, received letters asking for reporters and subscriptions, and happily supplied both). Few people want their copies mailed; they prefer to pay a dime each time the six-page full-sized paper is delivered to their doorstep. The Courier buses papers out to dozens of local distributors--housewives, civil rights leaders, retired steelworkers--who mail back the paper's share of the money collected, as well...
...time to make much fuss over them. Putting up in a grey-shingled cottage on the Lake Winnipesaukee estate of his friend Mormon Motel Magnate J. Willard Marriott, he spent four busy days testing the political waters in New Hampshire, well ahead of the state's primary on March 12, 1968. He found the waters at best lukewarm...
...tried separately and found innocent. Wilkerson was found guilty and sentenced to a dishonorable discharge and life imprisonment. Three weeks ago, a reviewing authority reduced the jail sentence to 30 years, and with the help of civilian attorney Matthew H. Brandenburg, Wilkerson will appeal even that sentence. Similarly, in March, four Air Cavalry troopers, convicted of participating in the rape-murder of a 20-year-old Vietnamese farm girl during a reconnaissance patrol, were all dishonorably discharged and given sentences ranging from eight years to life, according to their degree of involvement in the crime. Last January, one Marine...
...finding of Oxford University Pediatrician-Professor Neville R. Butler and Martin Feldstein, an American economist at Oxford, who compared the statistics on 617 stillbirths and neonatal (within four weeks of birth) deaths with those of 16,377 live births that occurred in Britain in the first week of March 1958. The results: pregnant women who are moderate smokers (one to nine cigarettes a day) are 20.8% more likely than the average of all pregnant women to bear dead babies or babies who die soon, and heavy smokers (ten cigarettes a day or more) are 25.9% more likely...
...relentless march of nearly 20 years time has left no mark on Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not For Burning. It is the same fat chestnut that it was the day he finished...