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...GERALD E. KNIGHT Plainfield...
DAWN AMIDON Plainfield...
...Gail Olmstead, pregnant with her second child (the first: Karen, 2), spent the empty, endless weeks of waiting at her parents' home in Plainfield, N.J. It was hard to maintain her husband's faith that everything would work out, that they would be back together soon. The details of Bruce Olmstead's confinement were not encouraging: "I am kept alone in a cell but am not being abused." Prison, he wrote, "has pretty well shown me that I couldn't quite make it as a cloistered monk. I am given cigarettes, hon, and filters at that...
JACK C. BRACE Plainfield...
...labor chieftains, including A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany and United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther, signed cards pledging themselves to boycott store chains that refuse to serve Negroes at lunch counters in the South.* Students from Harvard, M.I.T. and half a dozen other New England colleges met in Plainfield. Vt. to map a program for supporting the sit-in movement...