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From the South, the robed riders of the Klan came over the border of North Carolina on a hot July night in 1950. A column of 30-odd cars carried the Ku Kluxers through tobacco, cotton, peanut and sweet potato fields, then drove slowly along the streets of Tabor City (pop. 2,028), a sleepy Tarheel town that likes to call itself the "yam capital of the world...
...week, music piped in for 15 minutes of every hour, a cafeteria with low-priced good food. (There used to be a free mid-morning snack of milk and vitamin-enriched peanut-butter sandwiches, but the staff began to look like sofas.) On the walls of individual offices, and in the corridors, hang paintings by such modern masters as Renoir, Braque and Chagall. "My God!" cried an astounded visitor. "Is this a place of business or a girls' seminary...
Mixed Motives. In the 1920s, the U.S. was already talking of giving "our little brown brothers" their independence-for a variety of motives. Powerful U.S. interests (sugar, tobacco, dairy, cottonseed and peanut oil, the West Coast labor unions) objected to the rivalry of cheap Filipino products and cheap Filipino labor. They were joined by U.S. liberals who squirmed when Filipinos quoted U.S. doctrine back at them-i.e., that government derives its just powers from the consent of the governed. The U.S. gave the Philippines partial independence in 1935, and set the date of complete independence...
...tall, is typical of Manhattan's 4,000-odd TV performers who get just enough parts to keep their hopes up, but not enough for a reliable livelihood. As a result, many of them take time out from haunting producers' offices to do part-time work as peanut vendors, sightseeing guides, sales clerks, doormen and soda jerks. Miller differs from the rest mainly in the choice of his principal sideline, which puts him on TV screens nearly as much as his acting in such shows as Stop the Music and Lux Video Theater...
...director of admissions recalls his first meeting with the 155-lb. youngster who was to write a new chapter of Princeton football history: "Kazmaier had been recommended as an all-round high school athlete, and I didn't know what to think when I saw that peanut walk in." He wrote a kindly comment on Dick's card: "Probably not big enough for college athletics." But Princeton was glad to have Kazmaier: it was interested in him for other reasons...