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Even in Mississippi. Similarly, Negroes were admitted to previously all-white hotels and eating places in Savannah, Thomasville and Warner Robins, Ga. In Texas, Dallas' Piccadilly Cafeteria, a motel and lunch counter in Longview, restaurants in Palestine, and Austin, and a Beaumont drive-in were integrated. Thirty-three Memphis restaurants, including one of the city's largest downtown cafeterias, opened their doors to Negroes. Kemmons Wilson, chairman of the Memphis-based Holiday Inns motel chain, noting that he had instructed his motels to obey the new law, said: "The alternative is eventually anarchy, chaos and destruction...
Author Richard Jessup, a former merchant seaman from Savannah who once worked as a dealer in a gambling joint in Harlem, tells a cool, good story. His language is as spare as the language of the men he is writing about, but his work has the topography a novel needs...
...elusiveness makes neutrinos hard to deal with. Though scientists have been convinced that the particles exist, they were not directly detected until 1956 when Physicists Frederick Reines and Clyde Cowan Jr., of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, set up a monstrous apparatus near the Atomic Energy Commission's Savannah River reactor, which looses vast floods of neutrinos. A few times each hour while the reactor was working, the detector registered an "event." This meant that a single neutrino, out of many billions of billions per second, had actually hit something...
Normally, such "peace bonds" run to $500 or less. But bonds of more than $15,000 have been demanded from civil rights leaders in Savannah...
...Savannah judge ruled that peace bonds could be posted only in the form of title to real property, and only if the property were free of mortgages or other encumbrances. Under the court's terms, property value would be assumed to be the tax valuation, which in Savannah is about 25% of the market value. Says a civil rights lawyer: "We took the six largest office buildings in Savannah and looked at their encumbrances and their tax valuation. We found that all these buildings together would not be enough to furnish a $15,000 peace bond." Since the judge...