Word: short
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Huie knows that the Ray assignment is a possibly dangerous one. He hopes it will be his last. He would prefer to write novels now that at 57, he feels time is growing short. He has already written five, most recently, The Klansman, a powerful portrait of a Southern sheriff who is pulled one way by the Klan, the other way by his better instincts; the Klan wins. Huie also hopes that movies will be made of some of his civil rights books. "One of the great tragedies is that we've never had realistic films about race hatred...
...aftermath of the festival, Betty Nelson even became a heroine of sorts in Sultan. The hippies dubbed her Universal Mother, or U.M. for short, and the townspeople seemed ready to accept that title. As for the Universal Mother herself, she returned cheerfully to her wild raspberries, five children, two horses, two pigs, 75 chickens and an assortment of cats and dogs...
...called up from a farm club to pitch for Detroit in September 1963. In Tiger Stadium on Sept. 21, he made his major-league debut?against the Chicago White Sox. A few days before the game, Detroit Manager Chuck Oressen took Denny aside, and in a few short minutes of instruction taught him how to throw a curve. Thus armed, McLain mowed down the hated White Sox 4-3, striking out eight batters and aiding his own cause with a home...
...Mitsubishi, will be allowed to sell $30 million worth of consumer goods to Russian settlers in Siberia. As repayment of the loan and to cover its interest, the Russians over a five-year period will ship 8,020,000 cubic feet of timber to Japan. With housing chronically short in Japan and with U.S. West Coast suppliers restricting sales of logs to the Japanese to protect domestic plywood sources, the Siberian timber agreement is a coup...
...Ford and G.M. will offer minor styling changes on most models, major restyling on only a few. At Ford, the major work has been done on the full-size cars, including the LTD, which will be wider and lower, boast such features as a "flight cockpit" instrument array, a short rear deck and the long hood that is fast becoming a Detroit cliche. Mustang, the car that inspired the look, is becoming fast, period. Next year's "Mach 1" model will be able to live up to the name of its "Cobra Jet Ram-Air V8" engine. Top speed...