Word: pulp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Civic Union. Cabrera dis tributed the U.C.N.'s Santiago newspaper. Martinez and Clisante had helped transport people to a U.C.N. rally at Puerto Plata only the day before they died. When Clisante's body was turned over to his relatives, the head was beaten almost to a pulp. An enraged mob burst into the hospital morgue, draped a Dominican flag over the corpse, and paraded it through the streets, crying "Liberty! Down with dictatorship!" Another crowd started pegging rocks at police, were finally dispersed when the cops fired over their heads...
Died. Kenneth Flexner Fearing, 59, minor Kipling of the asphalt jungle, a Chicago corporation lawyer's son who became a proletarian poet during the Depression, a pseudonymous pulp-primer and novelist of such high-voltage thrillers as The Big Clock; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...With 16% of the world's forests, Brazil exports $90 million worth of pine a year with little effort, soon will produce all its own pulp and paper. But the Amazon's magnificent hardwoods (300 varieties v. 70 in the U.S.) rot on the forest floor, and its 600 varieties of palm trees, source of fiber, sacking, fuel, cattle feed and oils-stand unused...
Prince Edward County, Va., a tobacco and wood-pulp center in the heart of the Old Dominion, is the only county in the U.S. without a single operating public school. The county was one of the localities involved in the original Supreme Court desegregation case, and for nearly two years, local officials have kept the 20 Negro and white schools closed in defiance of the court order. Last week the Department of Justice filed a motion in Richmond to force the rebellious county to reopen its schools on an integrated basis...
...prizefighter of the 1950s who became the heavyweight champion of black South Africa and was known throughout the union as "King Kong." A hero until his death four years ago, he has since become something of an African god. He would clobber his challengers in the ring and later pulp them for good measure in the street outside. Braggart as well as warrior, he let his crown slide, ended up as a dance-hall bouncer who jealously murdered his mistress. Begging for capital punishment, he was given twelve years at hard labor and drowned himself by a prison...