Word: talley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SHAW: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY (1856-1898), selected by Stanley Weintraub. 336 pages. Weybright & Talley...
...BLACK DEATH: 1347 by George Deaux. 229 pages. Weybright & Talley...
...safety director, Patrick Murphy, crime is up 15%. In the worst slums, cowed businessmen reported a rash of burglaries, fires and extortionist threats. Four shopkeepers were murdered in three weeks. Most serious of all was the situation on the city's buses. Two weeks ago, Bus Driver John Talley was shot and killed by a band of Negro youths, climaxing a wave of nearly 250 holdups so far this year...
...Talley's death seemed the last straw. On orders from their union, bus drivers refused to carry change money after dark without armed guards; the result was a nighttime bus stoppage. In newspaper ads, 200 merchants noted "a growing smog of fear" over the city. Tourism, which brought 16.8 million visitors last year, is off some...
...South. This assessment comes from one of the more knowing observers of the area: Erskine Caldwell, who immortalized the mores of Dixie in such bestselling novels as Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre. In a new book of factual reporting called Deep South (Wey-bright & Talley; $6.50), Caldwell gives eyewitness testimony that the basic beliefs of many Southern churches have been left untouched by the changes affecting the rest of U.S. Christianity...