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Fortnight after its first victory in Nashville, Tenn.. the Negro sit-in movement for equality at Southern lunch counters won its second victory last week, when five downtown variety stores in Winston-Salem, N.C. opened their counters to Negroes without discrimination. Watching to see what happened were city detectives from Greensboro, N.C., where Negro college students staged the original sit-in demonstration back in early February. What the detectives saw was encouraging: whites and Negroes sat side by side without disorder, insults or even stares, as if things had never been any different...
After the seizure, dutiful banner head lines blossomed, and the president of the newspaper union, Salah Salem, jumped up on cue with a message of gushing gratitude to Nasser: "We thank you from the depths of our hearts for the fortunate move you took in turning over all the press resources, which are the main instruments of orientation and guidance to the people. By so doing, you have provided confirmation of the true meanings of the freedom of the press...
...Emma, Brenda, Belle." Gray sometimes tours the retailers himself (often in one of the company's three private planes), but most of his time is spent in Winston-Salem. There, he is out of bed daily at 6 a.m. sharp in the first-floor bedroom of his modified Georgian home on his 800-acre Brookberry Farm, where he lives with his wife and family (five sons, ranging from 9 to 22). He eats breakfast alone at 7:20 because "I made a deal with my wife when we were first married...
...Camels in 1913 in a package decorated with a very sick-looking animal. Recalls former Director R. C. Haberkern: "He was atrocious. He had pointed ears, his head was bad, his feet looked like sweet potatoes." The problem was not solved until the Barnum & Bailey circus came to Winston-Salem, and the Camel people got a look at their first dromedary, Old Joe. Old Joe was promptly photographed, drawn for the package. (When Reynolds tried to change the package slightly in 1958, it got so many complaints that it had to switch back to the old one.) Camels, with their...
...when Gray took a puff of a new blend numbered 736 one day in 1954. Cried he: "This is it! Let's go all out for it." The company did?and Winston took over leadership among the filters in 1955. Reynolds followed up its victory by introducing the mentholated Salem, timing it just right to hit the growing demand for menthol...