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...Judge Hugh Taylor of rural Monticello, Fla. dismissed a hundred prospective jurors who had been called for the murder trial of two Negroes and ordered a new panel, which includes four Negroes-the first break from the county's traditional practice of barring Negroes from jury lists...
When slim, 29-year-old ex-Convict Leland Ferre was locked up in the little county jail at Monticello, Ill. (pop. 2,612) last March, Sheriff Jason Ripperdam couldn't help feeling sorry for him. Ferre had been indicted for burglarizing a filling station, two stores and a couple of houses. But a chest infection had left him looking sickly. On-top of that, he was a local boy. When a doctor advised that Ferre be given "as much freedom as possible," the sheriff felt it his neighborly duty to agree...
Arriving at 11:11 o'clock this morning, the eleven will indulge in a light, pregame workout in the University of Virginia Stadium this afternoon. Tonight they will be quartered in the Monticello Hotel and Pugh House and tomorrow night at 8:40 o'clock will grab a Boston-bound train out of Charlottesville...
...along U.S. Highway 29, through the red Virginia farmland, past the old battleground of Bull Run. At every town, little flag-waving crowds gathered to watch him. Near Charlottesville, while 2,000 people assembled in front of the high-pillared porch of Thomas Jefferson's old hilltop home, Monticello, he delivered his Independence Day address (see col. 1). It was a happy, historical week...
...Communists everywhere, a cruel blow. The Moscow press offered hollow comfort by declaring that the long-expected U.S. depression was at hand, that the Marshall Plan was merely an attempt to capture markets for the U.S. But Izvestia reminded world Communism of the larger, long-range issues. At Monticello last week, Harry Truman had in effect declared that there was an ideological war on between democratic philosophy and its totalitarian enemies. Izvestia belligerently agreed: "The greatest achievement of world culture-Leninism-illuminates our road. ... A fighting, militant ideology, irreconcilable and merciless to our enemies...