Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mahoney thus bid unabashedly for the anti-integration elements that gave Alabama's racist Governor George Wal lace an astonishing 42.7% of the popular vote when he ran for Maryland's 1964 presidential nomination. Mahoney exploited white apprehensions stirred by black-power demonstrations in Baltimore last summer, capitalized as well on congressional resistance to the open-housing clause of the President's 1966 civil rights bill. His slogan: "Your Home Is Your Castle-Protect...
...boys and girls alike. By noon, the rabble outside had grown to 400. Cheered on by their womenfolk, Grenada's vigilantes savagely attacked terrified Negro children as they emerged from school. They trampled Richard Sigh, 12, in the dust, breaking a leg. Another twelve-year-old ran a block-long gauntlet of flailing whites, emerged with bleeding face and torn clothes. Still other Negro youngsters were thrown to the ground and kicked. "That'll teach you, nigger!" grunted one assailant. "Don't come back tomorrow." For good measure, the rowdies pummeled and kicked four white...
...there's the rub. For a century the school allowed its all-white student body to ignore the winds of U.S. constitutional change, while steeping itself almost entirely in local law, customs and politics. Ole Miss law graduates emerged with their Deep South views untouched, after which they ran the state with an isolated narrow-mindedness that has mired Mississippi in racial tragedy...
Died. Anne Nichols, 69, playwright, who in 1922 wrote and produced her one success, a schmalzy-darlin' situation comedy about the marriage of a Jewish boy and a Catholic girl titled Abie's Irish Rose, which ran for a record 2,327 performances on Broadway*and earned her, all told, an estimated $15 million, most of which she lost in the 1929 stock-market crash; of a heart attack; in an Englewood Cliffs, N.J., nursing home, where her fees were paid by the Actors' Fund, a charity for indigent theater people...
...Schrotel ran a model department. His men were ordered to say "sir" or "madam" when stopping a motorist, were warned against swaggering up to the car or leaning on the door. In the central station house, Schrotel had lists of " the prisoners' constitutional rights stenciled in black on the walls of every cell and even above the pay telephone. The chief's apprentice program enabled young high school graduates to serve as police cadets while they were going to college...