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Clay, who seems to get bigger and stronger each fight, may have to resurrect Joe Louis' "Bum of the Month" club, just to find somebody to fight. Maybe he already has, seeing as the next man in line is Ernie Terrell, the World Boxing Association "champion" -who has been providing for his future by practicing as a rock-'n'-roll singer...
...CIVIL RIGHTS. Since murder is a state crime, what can the Government do when Southern states fail to act in racial murders? Last year it tried to resurrect an 1870 law that makes it a ten-year rap to deprive any person of his federal rights, but two Southern federal judges refused to apply the law in Georgia and Mississippi. The Supreme Court has also agreed to review the new Southern gimmick of giving Negroes "free choice" to attend white schools, while allegedly pressuring them not to. The court has refused for the fourth time to take a case involving...
Bishop Perry's selection is likely to resurrect some of New Orleans' racial dissension. On the other hand, as the Vatican realizes, it will not go unnoticed among U.S. Negroes. Of them, only a meager 723,000 are now numbered among the nation's 45 million Roman Catholics...
...when immigrants and minority groups were at last gaining access to political power, and when the Supreme Court was beginning to interpret the 14th amendment as a defense of civil rather than economic liberties. They have re-examined the conventional assumptions about Reconstruction, and have tried to resurrect the Radical Republicans as visionaries and idealists who believed in the potentialities of the Negro and who wrote this belief into the Constitution...
...inaugurated his election campaign last January by another visit to the temple. "With the blessings of the tooth and the people's encouragement, we have carried out the struggle successfully," said Senanayake, and he called upon the Sinhalese people to lay aside their differences and help "resurrect the country from the disastrous position to which it has sunk...