Word: namee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contractor, Levitt & Sons, which pledged to end racial discrimination in its 80,000 dwelling units from coast to coast and in all its new projects in the U.S. and abroad. Whatever the ultimate effect of these and a score of other proposals made in Martin Luther King's name, the unexpected restraint shown by black and white together last week may prove a worthy memorial to King's cause and, just possibly, a harbinger of greater interracial cooperation and understanding in the future...
...King? "His death just gave us an excuse," said Ronald Rudolph, 22, in Pittsburgh. "I never did dig the man much when he was alive." When a well-provisioned Harlem "liberator" was asked why he was stealing, he cried: "It's because they killed what's-his-name!" "You know why people loot?" explained one young rioter. "Because they ain't never, so long as they live, gonna have enough money to buy a color-television set. Man, I got big ambitions but not much will power...
Although the authorities attempted to maintain the strictest secrecy, some interlocking fragments of the investigation fell into place. One FBI agent allowed that "hundreds" of individuals were being checked. One name that surfaced-apparently because of an FBI slip-was that of Eric Starve Gait, 36, of Birmingham. The FBI put out an advisory to police, requesting that Gait be located though not arrested. When word leaked out in Dade County, the FBI rescinded the request but continued to ask questions at Gait's last known address, a Birmingham rooming house...
Same day in Atlanta, the FBI impounded a white 1966 Mustang bearing Alabama tag number 1-38993 and registered in Gait's name. It had been parked near a public-housing project since the morning after King's assassination. The killer is believed to have escaped in a white Mustang, and the FBI clearly thought that this was the assassin's car. It had been bought in Birmingham for $2,000 cash...
...like a guppy on the end of 130-lb. line suddenly came alive when the rig was reduced to 30 lb., flashing across the ocean in wild greyhounding leaps; the 50-lb. wahoo that expired without a peep on the end of 80-lb. test lived up to his name on 20 lb.; the 10-lb. bonefish that rolled belly up on 20 lb. became a raging demon on 6-lb. or better still, 4-lb. test, ripping off line so fast that it sounded like a sheet tearing. Says Pete Perinchief of Bermuda's top-rated Anglers Club...