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...room and board. The remainder is divided up between the prisoner's family and a trust fund that he receives on completing his sentence. Some of North Caro lina's working prisoners: Harry Rivenbark, 57, a forger, tears down automobiles in a Raleigh junkyard...
Voter registration often means months of legal action against constant evasion, miles of doorbell-ringing arguments against fear and apathy-but it is beginning to pay off. White and colored students working in Raleigh, N.C.-where an 8,000-vote Negro bloc has been the deciding factor in the last two municipal elections-cruised through Negro neighborhoods with a Negro registrar in their bus and station wagon, registered 1,300 new voters at the curbside in six weeks. In Terrell County, Ga., a federal injunction two years ago finally resulted in the registration of 51 of the county...
Yaleman Cobb's double life began three years ago on a business trip to Raleigh, where he met Linda Renfrew, then 31, a secretary who had won four beauty contests and divorced her husband. In August 1960, six months pregnant by Cobb, she moved into a house he rented for her. Cobb, known as "W. Edward Cobb," showed up in Roanoke only sporadically -he was thought to be an insurance claims adjuster and aircraft inspector whose work kept him traveling. In Morganton, where he was actually a successful lumber broker, he explained his frequent absences to his wife...
...approaches the climax of a historic effort to vault the Channel and bind her fortunes indissolubly to those of the new, united, booming Western Europe. This decision will deeply affect Britain's relations with 724 million Commonwealth citizens. Britons who want to remember the sails of Drake and Raleigh, and the balance sheets that once followed the flag around the world, are being asked to turn their backs on what little remains of the Empire and to abandon (or so many believe) yesterday's wide horizons for a nearby, still suspect coast. And yet, to an extent unforeseeable...
...then, only natural that when Twain in the summer of 1876 got the idea for a story in the manner of an Elizabethan Pepys, in which the conversation of Sir Walter Raleigh, Ben Jonson, Francis Beaumont and a covey of ladies including the Queen was to be recorded in all the coarseness and candor that Twain liked to believe was typical of aristocratic talk of the period, he should write it out in a letter to Twichell. The good pastor, predictably, laughed his head off. After keeping the letter in his pocket for four years so that he could refer...