Word: midnighters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tuskegee, Ala., birthplace of Tuskegee Institute (for Negroes), the Macon Theater had the last word in separate but equal cinema. The separate ticket offices, separate entrances, and separate concessions were old as midnight popcorn, but there was an added feature: a ceiling-to-floor partition, running down the middle of the auditorium. There were 324 seats on the white side and 336 seats on the colored side. Up front: two separate but equal silver screens...
...Transport Service terminal. There they boarded a silver Douglas C-118, took off for Augusta, Ga. to keep an 8:30 a.m. appointment with the President. Within three days the U.S.'s self-imposed, 14-month suspension of nuclear tests was due to expire on its deadline of midnight Dec. 31. The urgent question to be decided that morning: Should the U.S., or should it not, renew the nuclear-test moratorium...
...Cameroon's new green, yellow and red flag fluttered proudly on poles that had carried the French Tricolor for 40 years, thousands gathered before the Legislative Assembly building at midnight to greet independence day with cheers. Later that morning Premier Ahidjo proudly assembled his distinguished guests for the formal ceremony pronouncing independence. The foreigners, who included...
Havana-based foreign correspondents were subjected to a new barrage of vituperation and abuse, from hotel waiters, bellhops, elevator operators, customs officials, and anonymous midnight callers on the telephone. Some Cuban concerns began stamping their mail with hostile messages to the press: IF YOU READ IT IN THE A.P. OR THE U.P.I...
...surprising thing about the author's considerable skill is that she knows very well how to write about men; most of the book is seen from a wholly masculine viewpoint. Particularly effective is a midnight episode in which timorous strikers march out to meet a force of equally fearful police. The book's best line is given to a striker who, irritated at politicking women, mimics the old gag: "As we married women unfortunately know, there are certain aspects of marriage at which a gentlewoman shudders, but, ladies, I find that it is possible to live out these...