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...eight free acres of land for his own use. Though most Tongans were converted to Christianity by Wesleyan and Catholic missionaries, they have managed to retain their own gods too. Their monarchy is indigenous and one of the world's oldest: Tupou IV traces his lineage back a thousand years, and his is the last surviving Polynesian kingdom in Oceania...
...nigger grabbed a 75-year-old white woman in this town and brutally raped her. Brutally raped her. Did the people go out and say that nigger was a victim of discrimination and that's why he raped her? No. Three thousand people from this town rose up, took that beast out, and hung him." The speaker was one of six leaders of a National States Rights Party rally last August in front of the courthouse in Princess Anne, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Inside the courthouse, two Negroes were being held on charges of raping a white...
...casual observer must sense a precipitous decline in anti-war activity since April's peace march brought several hundred thousand daffodiled protestors to New York City. Throughout April, the demonstration--and Martin Luther King's much publicized switch to active dove --captured headline after headline. But since then the peaceniks have not been in the top of the news at all. Where have all the flowers gone? Has the movement really wilted? Don't believe...
Walzer hopes that if the CNC can collect several thousand signatures, Congressman O'Neill might agree to public hearings in spite of his hawkish stand on the war. Several of Walzer's group recently conferred with O'Neill and reported him to be much more dovish in private than he has been in public...
...Herald-Traveler Corp. have circulated through Boston for almost a decade. Once the Boston paper, the Herald now trails the morning Globe (circ. 231,300) by 77,000 copies, while the Traveler, which held a 74,500 lead over the afternoon Globe in 1947, had fallen a few thousand copies behind. "We found increasing difficulty in the p.m. field," said Akerson. "In the afternoon you're fighting against the tide." Both papers were losing money, but the Traveler's losses made up the bulk of the total, which began in 1962 at about $150,000 and rose...