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...desegregation order still holds, but older Montgomery Negroes have since reverted to a somewhat loose pattern of segregated seating, rarely, for example, will a white rider and a Negro sit beside each other...
...extraordinary complexity. She fights like a man, and swears and drinks like one too. Her love affairs are legion; yet in her ample bosom, religion burns with a white flame. She thrives on a noisy 15-hour workday. In Bolivia, she is called "half-breed"; in Paraguay, "burro rider"; in Haiti, "Madame Sarah." Everyone knows her as the market woman, the indispensable harridan of commerce who easily ranks as the No. 1 retailer to Latin America's lower classes...
...group of early Dallas boosters (mostly ex-Confederate colonels from Tennessee bribed the Houston and Texas Central Railroad to come to Dallas. The Texas and Pacific building West, though, wouldn't be bought or persuaded. A crafty state legislator from Dallas tacked a rider onto the railroad's authorization bill that specified Browder Springs as a watering spot. Not knowing that Browder Springs was adjacent to Dallas, the Legislature made the bill law and, unwittingly, the Texas and Pacific came to Dallas...
Maudling popped out from the Treasury, just across the street from No. 10; Butler, a grim rider in a black Daimler, was momentarily roused from introspection by the cheers of the crowd; Hailsham, reportedly the hardest-dying, refused to say anything about anything. They came and went, as the sun set and the TV lights rose, then came and went again. Lord Privy Seal Edward Heath went on BBC television to praise Home's "integrity, clarity, judgment and perseverance" and to hope "that all our colleagues will be able to serve with him." Selwyn Lloyd insisted "he will make...
...With the rider, Kennedy feared, the bill would be as good as dead, and his congressional liaison men reported that the vote on it would be uncomfortably close. "If we get five Republicans," said one aide, "that will be four more than I can count now." Worried, Kennedy sent his aides scurrying up to Capitol Hill to line up votes against the amendment. The bill, said Kennedy, "must not be diluted by amendments or conditions. It must not be put off until next year. This nation needs a tax cut now, not a tax cut if and when...