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...Southern racists resorted to such brutish mob violence as the terrorism that greeted school opening in Grenada, Miss., last week. A neat, small (pop. 12,000), outwardly placid county seat deep in Faulkner country, Grenada (pronounced Gren-ay-da) had been simmering with racial tension ever since the James Mer edith protest march trooped through town last June...
...encom passing concept that is guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. That freedom is in deed considerable. But - except in twelve states* - if a newsman is in possession of information pertinent to a criminal investigation, he is as obliged as any other citizen to disclose it. For mer New York Herald Tribune TV Columnist Marie Torre found that out in 1959 when she served ten days for refusing to identify a source...
...airline hostesses who share a Paris flat with Tony Curtis. As a prodigiously oversexed American newspaperman, Tony has obviously never met a deadline, but he does keep busy checking timetables, the better to enjoy, one by one, his "fiancées" from British United (Suzanna Leigh), Lufthansa (Christiane Schmidt-mer) and Air France (Dany Saval). "You don't need a housekeeper-you need a Univac," snaps Tony's maid-of-all-work, Thelma Ritter, who schlumps through the premises changing linens, juggling menus, and scornfully polishing off a collection of stale sex jokes...
...between 17 and 40 and in good physical condition") to dress in numbered jerseys reminiscent of the late Roller Derby. Thus properly attired, the delegates run down supermarket aisles like thieves, grabbing up goods in a race against the clock. The contestant whose champion has snatched the most valuable mer chandise in his basket returns the next day to meet new challengers in a game that may very well go on to infinity. "They originally tried it with the homemakers themselves running up and down the market collecting stuff," explains an ABC executive, "but it looked a little cheap. This...
COMBO'S prescription is to ask mer chants and well-to-do residents to do nate virtually anything they can part with-except cash. Individuals are in vited to turn over their summer homes when they do not plan to use them. As for businesses, airlines are asked to give away empty seats on long-distance flights, laundries to volunteer a few weeks of free washing - all taxdeductible. Then everything is auctioned off at a gala dinner attended by the city's best people...