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...vanishing Americana is cause for nostalgia. Consider the speed trap, that once ubiquitous feature of Crossroads, U.S.A., now largely and mercifully extinct, the victim of interstate highways and perhaps even some slight evolution in civic if not human nature. One malignant exception to progress, however, is the southeastern Georgia town of Ludowici. Named after an immigrant German roofing-tile manufacturer who built a factory there at the turn of the century, it is one of the last remaining speed traps in the country. TIME Correspondent Joseph Kane drove slowly into Ludowici and sent back this report...
...Frank M. Johnson, 51, U.S district judge for southeastern Alabama. One of the first Southern judges to enforce the Supreme Court's 1954 school-desegregation decision, Johnson (TIME cover, May 12, 1967) is a scrupulously fair legal craftsman who has helped strengthen the forces of Southern moderation. No liberal save by right-wing Southern standards, he has followed the Supreme Court despite intense local pressure, sat on courts that abolished the Alabama poll tax and handed down the nation's first order requiring a state to reapportion voting districts. He is probably the finest Southern Republican trial judge...
...ASTRONAUT looking down from space would see the eclipse's totality as a black circle about a hundred miles across that would first appear off the Pacific Coast of Central America and then race across Southern Mexico. The shadow would then pass over the southeastern U. S.. Nantucket, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland before disappearing east of Greenland. This deep shadow or umbra is shaped like an inverted cone with its base on the moon and its narrowest point on the earth...
...Harvard fencing team, opening its season today at Southeastern Massachusetts University. barely resembles the powerhouse that coach Edo Marion envisioned last winter...
Despite the restrictions, the agreement gave the guerrillas what they wanted most: the right to pass through Lebanon on the way from their bases in Syria to strike at Israel. In a show of cooperation, the guerrillas quickly departed from the areas in southeastern Lebanon where they had seized a number of villages and outposts in an effort to gain control over the Bekaa Valley road, now dubbed the Arafat Trail, which runs from Syria toward Israel...