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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last year Reeb gave up his Washington duties and took a job with the American Friends Service Committee in Boston, where he directed the group's low-income housing project, bought a rundown house in Boston's Negro ghetto of Roxbury, sent his children to the local school, where most pupils were Negroes...
...talk, not action. His dream is to get away from job, winter, phony people and their "Death Row" wait for heart disease or cancer "or one of the less predictable trapdoors" to get them. He comes to an uncommercialized Caribbean island called Amerigo. He falls in love with a rundown resort. The owner has it up for sale. Atlas offers to back him. The poor sap says...
This week THE NATION will do a state-by-state rundown on the presidential election. We will definitely assign each state either to Johnson or Goldwater...
...year, 18 now have Democratic incumbents, seven Republicans. Although most of the campaigns are being fought strictly on state issues, the results of the presidential contest nonetheless seem almost certain to make the difference in a number of states where the races are remarkably close. A state-by-state rundown...
...Frank Dobie, 75, folklorist of the U.S. Southwest; of a heart attack; in Austin, Tex. He called himself a Texian, adding the i and defining it as "one of the old rocks of the state." That he was, spending his life slouching across the land in battered Stetson and rundown boots, collecting all the tales, true or tall, of oil and gold, sheriffs and outlaws, then spinning them out in humorously irreverent lectures as the University of Texas' "Professor Pancho" and weaving them into 21 books, of which Coronado's Children and The Mustangs were among the best...