Word: riding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arrested Aug. 14 at nearby Fort Deposit after they had picketed stores, demanding equal job opportunities for local Negroes. After being held for nearly a week in the county jail at Hayneville, they were unexpectedly released one afternoon last week. As they waited outside the Hayneville courthouse for a ride back to Selma, the group began "singing and demonstrating and creating general disorder," as Lowndes County Solicitor Carlton Perdue put it. Then Daniels, Father Morrisroe and two Negro girls strolled across the street to Varner's grocery store to get something...
...months, Britons on the lam have found complete sanctuary in Ireland−only a three-hour ferry ride away. Because of a yawning legal loophole discovered in 1964, Ireland has become a home away from home for at least three of the Great Train Robbers and more than 100 other British fugitives. Conversely, platoons of Irish crooks have been flitting safely to Britain−all because the two countries wrongly thought that no extradition treaty was needed between them...
...STOVE-UP COWBOY'S STORY by James Emmit McCauley. 76 pages. Southern Methodist University. $5. "I was borned on the 14th day of August 1873, in Anderson County, Lone Star State. My parents be poor like Job's turkey. But my first memory was to ride a stick horse and my first wishes and desires was to be a wild and woolly cowboy." A wild and woolly cowboy that little boy became, and many years later, encouraged by Folk Singer John Lomax, the old wrangler rustled up a stub pencil to scribble off the story of "what...
...began the changeover to the 1966 models, which will hit the showrooms beginning in late September. So insatiable is the national curiosity about Detroit's new models that the industry has, as usual, begun to be besieged by leaks, peeks and broad speculation. With the new models ride the automakers' hopes that the nation's most important industry can continue in 1966 the spectacular successes of the past four years, which have contributed as much as anything to the record advances of the U.S. economy...
...strapping sons (Phillip Alford) is captured by Yankee troops, later to be snatched from death's jaws by his former playmate, a freed slave. The rest of the family goes searching for him, enduring separation, fear and wanton slaughter, before they return home just in time to ride off for Sunday services at the village church. There, naturally, the lost son hobbles in on a makeshift crutch. Shenandoah's final comment on the futility of war conveys the odd impression that it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of people...