Word: shotguns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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White Cairoites responded with cross burnings and shotgun blasts when blacks attempted to integrate local schools in 1952, clubbings when they sought admittance to a community roller rink ten years later, and firebombings when they demanded appointment of a black police official in 1967. Last week violence erupted again in Cairo as blacks continued to seek a fuller share in the life of their tiny community...
Cruise Snooze. There are ample signs of the lull. Captains of the weekly Nile steamers no longer sandbag their wheel-houses against snipers, and soldiers riding shotgun on the boats now snooze through the voyage. Most of the schools closed down after the 1965 massacres have reopened. Journalists, long barred from the south, are now welcome. "Go anywhere you like," an official urged, "and stay as long as you wish. We want you to learn the truth." According to Brigadier General Mohamed Abdul Gadir, head of the Southern Command since the May coup, the Anya Nya are short of arms...
...social calendar, the President continues to enjoy the ambling ambience of his Western White House. The morning's work generally begins with Nixon's slipping behind the wheel of a Cushman golf cart (dubbed "Cushman One"). King Timahoe, the first family's Irish setter, often rides shotgun in the cart. The President drives 400 yards between his Spanish-style villa and the White House staff offices and enters the handsome new surroundings. In less than two months, the barren Coast Guard LORAN (long range navigation) station, which adjoins the Nixon property, has burst into bloom with manicured...
Though Arthur, the son of a Baptist preacher, was only 15, he was thrown in with adult convicts at the Leflore County prison farm. There a Negro "trusty" named Columbus Williams, who was serving time for assault and battery with intent to kill, was entrusted with a 12-gauge shotgun to guard other prisoners. One day Williams led a chain gang into the countryside to repair a bridge. During a lunch break, he ordered a prisoner to fetch him a rag to clean his shoes. The man refused, and Williams turned to Arthur, who also refused...
...combination of antibacterial drugs, Commissioner Herbert L. Ley Ir. says: "The use of two or more active ingredients in treating any patient who can be cured by one is irrational. It exposes the patient to an unnecessary risk. Antibiotics should be used like a rifle, not like a shotgun...