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By the end of the boycott's second week, tensions in Byhalia were running high. Scattered skirmishes between residents and picketers were reported, with each side blaming the other. Dudley Moore, mayor and president of the town bank, said the Byhalia whites were "getting fed up" with the continuing protest...
'Violence is nothing new in Argentine politics, but it has now reached proportions that are staggering even by local standards. Last Sunday night terrorists scattered more than 50 bombs round Buenos Aires, mainly at automobile showrooms, banks and financial companies. Two men, including a policeman who was trying to...
The narrative is written in prose but he slips lines of verse into it like additional exclamation marks, or commas, or periods. The poetry is raw but effective, as the fragment from his winter in Turkey. Occasionally you can trace the development of a poem later published; a series of...
There were and will be some noisy exceptions, of course. In Boston, antibusing forces prepared to greet this week's school opening with massive demonstrations. The protests were aimed at a court-ordered plan to transfer 45,000 children to schools in other parts of the city in an...
These manglings of Gaelic were once the common language of Brooklyn cabbies, policemen and longshoremen -not to mention baseball fans. One linguistically memorable day at Ebbets Field in the 1930s, when Dodger Pitcher Waite Hoyt was hit by a ball, a spectator jumped up on the bleachers and shouted out...