Word: roading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Every night last week-except twice when it rained-the mobs surged through London's seedy Netting Hill and Paddington districts. In Latimer Road, Soapboxer Jeffrey Hamm roared that Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley's Union Movement had warned five years ago that racial flare-ups would result from the government's "open-door" policy to Negroes from the colonies and Commonwealth. "Deport colored people found guilty of crime!" he shouted. From the crowd of 2,000 teenagers came a hissing, ecstatic "Yesss!" A carload of Negroes went slowly by, and 200 screaming Teddy boys peeled off from...
...Ledbury Road, hoodlums worked systematically down the street hurling bricks and milk bottles at every house where Negroes lived. When they reached a Negro bar called the Calypso Club, three Molotov cocktails (bottles filled with gasoline ignited by a wick) were hurled out at the crowd. "Kill the bloody spades!" shrieked a 15-year-old Teddy boy. Others took up the cry-but it changed to "Kill the bloody coppers!" as truncheon-flailing police surged into the mob. Dozens were arrested and police stations stacked up piles of bicycle chains and tire irons, flick knives and nail-studded belts taken...
...after day they came, sloshing through England's summer rain, jamming the road from London to the Surrey town of Lingfield with so many cars that the Automobile Association had to put up special yellow signs marking the way. What they came to see-retired army officers, shopkeepers, typical British families in holiday clothes-was a rectangular building faced with white Portland stone and topped by a spire sheathed in lead-coated copper: the London Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was the first Mormon temple to be built in Britain...
General Motors will kick off its new model year with the Buick on Sept. 15. Last week the completely restyled Buick was already on the streets, being delivered to dealers (see cut). Ford said the new Mercury will be "totally new from road to roof," with 61% more glass space than the poor-selling '585. To make the overhaul complete, Ford's Mercury-Edsel-Lincoln Boss James J. Nance, onetime head of Hotpoint and Studebaker-Packard, resigned under pressure after eight months as division chief. Under Nance, production skidded to 110,644 cars this year from...
Emptied Pubs. The pubs on St. Ann's Well Road last week were filled with edgy whites and Negroes. At Chase Tavern a young Negro drew angry mutters when he entered with a white girl. At closing time a band of Negroes came down the road. As they neared the pub, one of several white loungers called: "What are those black bastards looking at us for?" With shouts of "Get them!" the Negroes descended, knives flashing, left two white men writhing on the ground. Within minutes, as nearby pubs emptied, fighting became general. Negroes and whites smashed bottles, grabbed...