Word: southwesterner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Astruc should have been concentrating on the road as he drove along the icy edge of the Lot River in southwestern France. But Astruc is a spelunker, always on the lookout for potholes to pop into. To him, the little frost-free spot he saw in a limestone cliff suggested a cave entrance that had become plugged up. He stopped to probe the spot with a crowbar. Stones and dirt caved in; warm air whooshed out. Suddenly Astruc was staring into a narrow tunnel. "I was alone," he says, "afraid to go in very far, or stay very long...
...less definite than the steel case in details about how, when, and where the millers met to set; it claims that they used two economics news services to spread the word on what the prices were to be, also had the prices published in a trade journal called the Southwestern Miller. If anyone of the conspirators was suspected of deviating from the set flour price, say the trustbusters, the others got on the telephone to enforce the agreements...
SNCC field workers are now seeking methods to make nonviolence work in the Second South, where Zinn says, "the smell of slavery still lingers." The worst regions are Southern Virginia, Southwestern Georgia, Eastern Arkansas, and all of Mississippi. In these areas machine guns and bombs are freely used against the Negro population. According to Robert Moses, SNCC project director in Mississippi, there have been 180 cross burnings, five killings, several shootings, and at least three whippings in Mississippi since the Ku Klux Klan reorganized shortly after President Kennedy's death...
...editor of a crusading weekly back in the 1930s, New Mexico Newsman Will Harrison made so many enemies that he took to carrying a hunk of type metal for self-defense. Now that he has turned columnist in 16 Southwestern dailies, 13 weeklies and two monthly magazines, Harrison is still stirring up trouble so strenuously that Judge Paul Tackett of the state district court in Albuquerque has just hit him with a $250 fine and a ten-day jail sentence for contempt of court. While the punishment itself does not seem unbearably burdensome, the case has reverberated far beyond...
Aileen B. Shields, 58, a divorcee who lives with her mother, has worked the past 37 years for Southwestern Bell Telephone...