Word: riders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five years, a whale on a flatcar was a pier feature. The long tradition of diving horses was largely established by a formidable gelding named John the Baptist, a sort of box office Seabiscuit, who plunged for 30 years, always carrying a bareback and more or less barebodied female rider. Over the years, a prodigious, petition-length list of big names showed up to play the Steel Pier, from Eddy Duchin to Paul Whiteman, Ben Blue to Bob Hope, Red Skelton to Betty Grable, Rudy Vallee and Gypsy Rose...
Aboard the bus, Freedom Rider Jim Lawson held a workshop on tactics for the riot that might come: "If we get knocked down, I think the best bet is to stand where we are if we can-or kneel where we are." But the only man in Alabama who lifted a finger at the Freedom Riders was a farmer, who thumbed his nose. At a rest stop, while Guardsmen glared at empty fields, Lawson disavowed the armed guard: "We appreciate the Government's concern, but protection does not solve the problem of segregation...
Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy's proposed "cooling-off period" was not a popular idea among those involved in the Freedom Rider movement, CORE spokesmen told a crowd of 300 in the Boston Common yesterday...
Bombed Bus. "I could tell the difference when we crossed the state line into Alabama." recalls Negro Freedom Rider Charles Person, 18. "The atmosphere was tense." Outside Anniston, the first stop in Alabama, whites who had been pursuing in cars caught up with the Freedom Riders. An incendiary bomb was hurled through a broken window, setting the bus afire. "The bus soon filled with black, acrid smoke," recalls Freedom Rider Bigelow. "We had to get out somehow-there was no chance at all of surviving inside." The waiting toughs beat up some of the Freedom Riders who emerged first...
...gaudily bedizened by the flippest headline writers in the business (SINGER CROAKS ON HIGH c, ran above an early story about an opera star, who collapsed onstage and died in the wings). The paper is still so accurately aimed at Patterson's hand-picked target-the Manhattan subway rider-that News circulation plummets 300,000 or so on holidays, when the straphangers stay home...