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...people had been on this block only the night before by possemen. Negro youngsters coming a rally at the Jackson St. Baptist Church, Tuesday morning (March 16), told the story without anger, impassively. "They rode right through the people, beating 'em with clubs. I they rode up on that porch near the corner knocked a baby from a women's arms, though I didn't see it myself." But now the wns looked green, the porches clean and whitewashed. The sun was warm, and happy came from the church--it didn't seem if there could have been a beating...

Author: By Peter Cummings, | Title: Montgomery Police Halt Tuesday March; Beatings Nearly Provoke Riot by Negroes | 3/24/1965 | See Source »

...better view. An elderly Negro lady with gold teeth and a faded grey suit pulled me aside and whispered. "Thank you all, thank you. The good Lord has sent you down here to save us all. We all of us want to thank you." On her porch three more ladies were sitting on a grey wooden swing. They waved timidly and nodded...

Author: By Curtis A., | Title: The Wednesday March | 3/20/1965 | See Source »

After 20 shots of cognac, Thompson "decided to hell with it." He walked into East Berlin wearing civilian clothes; no one checked his pass. He contacted Communist intelligence officers, said he wanted to defect. Three men questioned him for six hours in the sun porch of a private house overlooking a lake. Thompson was pretty drunk; the Soviets told him they didn't think he would be a good spy and sent him back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Espionage: The Stupid Spy | 3/19/1965 | See Source »

Miss Chodorow requested that all representatives bring the ballots to her residence by Sunday noon. That morning, the votes from Moors Hall were left on the porch of Warner House. "Although it is unlikely that the votes were actually tampered with during that half hour, the potential was there and this is certainly no way to conduct elections," one irate student charged last night...

Author: By Ann Peck, | Title: Misconduct Charged in RGA Election | 3/2/1965 | See Source »

Yamasaki's 25-ton columns soar 80 ft. The Parthenon's portico rises only 34 ft., and the columns of Paris' Madeleine church climb 65 ft. But Yamasaki winces at the comparison. He prefers to call his colonnade, in congenial fashion, a porch. "When you build something," Yamasaki insists, "you ought to be a good neighbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: A Porch for Pedestrians | 1/22/1965 | See Source »

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