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...witness was Police Chief Laurie Pritchett, 36, who testified for twelve hours. More than anyone else, Pritchett is responsible for keeping Albany (where about 1,000 demonstrators, Negroes and whites, have been arrested since December) from turning into a bloody battleground. A tough (220 Ibs.) but affable professional, Pritchett has won the respect of both sides in the Albany dispute; the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. thinks that Pritchett is the best Southern police chief he has ever met. Says Pritchett: "I'm Southern through and through. I'm conscious of my roots here, and they go deep...
Even when pop bottles and rocks were being thrown at his men, Pritchett and his forces were able to keep matters in hand without the use of clubs or guns. One night last week, when 16 Negroes gathered before the city hall to pray and sing hymns, Pritchett angrily rushed to the scene. He was irritated, he explained, because he had been told that the Negroes would forgo a demonstration that evening so that he could observe his twelfth wedding anniversary at home in peace. The Negroes obligingly dispersed, and Pritchett went home to continue his family celebration...
...refused Negro appeals to establish even a basis of communication between the two groups. Increasingly, Negroes, though still united in their aim, are being discouraged by a sense of failure: each protest march ends in jail. As much as the pleas of King, the presence of Police Chief Laurie Pritchett, 36, an intelligent officer who has dealt unemotionally and with dignity with the Negroes, has kept the activists among them from turning the town inside...
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When My Girl Comes Home, by V. S. Pritchett. Dry and controlled tales by a Briton with a keen eye for the madness that squirms in view when the ordinary is overturned...