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...Northern press rarely carries stories of police brutality, primarily because when they check with the police departments involved all they hear is denials. Perhaps the most infamous in recent months here is the case of Reverend Samuel Wells. Wells, who is on the board of the Albany Movement, a homegrown association of adults working with SNCC, was dragged by his genitals by police who had arrested him with several others July 8. The Albany Herald, the city's sole daily, published a story in which Chief of Police Laurie Pritchett denied that Wells had been mistreated in any way, without...
...central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica with a retinue of clerics, a vast roar came up from the crowd. "I announce to you tidings of great joy," he intoned hoarsely in Latin. "Habemus papam-we have a Pope. He is the most eminent and most Reverend Lord Cardinal Giovanni Battista...
...Most Reverend John J. Wright, Roman Catholic Bishop of Pittsburgh...
...Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., led the first great non-violent struggle in the modern "era of integration." The Montgomery bus boycott lasted several weeks; in the end after King's home was bombed and demonstrators were jailed, the Negroes won the right to sit in the front of the buses...
After the procession has reached a platform erected at one end of the Stadium, greetings will be given by Gov. Peabody, representing the Commonwealth; Cardinal Richard J. Cushing, representing Massachusetts churches; and President Pusey, representing the academic world. The Very Reverend Michael P. Walsh, president of Boston College, will also speak...