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...They knew their place: they were "niggers"' in a Jim Crow town, and they bore their degradation in silence. But last week they smashed that image forever. The scenes in Birmingham were unforgettable. There was the Negro youth, sprawled on his back and spinning across the pavement, while firemen battered him with streams of water so powerful that they could strip bark off trees. There was the Negro woman, pinned to the ground by cops, one of them with his knee dug into her throat. There was the white man who watched hymn-singing Negroes burst from a sweltering...
...free him." But demonstration leaders quickly broke into the circle and managed to save the policemen. The riot ebbed-and then, an hour later, exploded again. In Kelly Ingram Park, hundreds of Negroes began lobbing bricks and bottles at the lawmen. A deputy sheriff fell to the pavement, shouting "Those black apes!" For two hours, the battle raged, but slowly, inexorably, in trucks and cars, the police closed...
...Song of Solomon needed some new words last week as the power saws growled and stately old elm trees crashed to the pavement. They were all doomed by Dutch elm disease, though many of them could probably have been saved by careful, persistent programs of spraying with insecticides...
...connected by short curves. Uniform median width should also be avoided; the median strip between the ribbons of roadway should be expanded and contracted to overcome the monotony of high-speed travel. "The designer of a divided freeway possesses, in the very interplay of the two undulating ribbons of pavement, a basic tool of spatial expression," and he should treat it as "a sculptural form in its own right...
...Elisabethville ignored-or perhaps did not hear-a Congolese soldier's order to get off the sidewalk in front of the heavily guarded National Bank of Katanga last week. Angrily, the soldier hoisted his rifle and shot him in the back. As the man lay groaning on the pavement, Congolese troops shoved away a doctor who tried to save his life...