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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CIVIL RIGHTS To the Roots Attorney General William P. Rogers, heavily occupied with civil rights legalisms during his two-year tenure, last week angrily tongue-lashed the Mississippi grand jury that ignored evidence uncovered by the FBI after the lynching of Mack Charles Parker last April (TIME, Nov. 16). The grand-jury performance, said he, "was as flagrant and calculated a miscarriage of justice as I know of." The grand jury's failure to return indictments for the Negro's murder showed the need for a new federal "criminal statute" to protect civil rights. "The nation will...
Blips & Survival. At .0615, Kittinger climbed onto a flat-bed truck and squeezed into a small gondola that was strung from a huge plastic balloon. Harnessed on his back was an elaborate instrument kit (14-channel tape recorder for voice, heartbeat and respiration rates, time blips, temperature, etc.). On his left wrist were a rear-view mirror, a small box with built-in altimeter and stopwatch, and a survival knife and scabbard. To one leg was strapped a tiny receiver-transmitter radio, and on his back were two parachutes and an alternate oxygen system...
POLITICAL NOTES Poll Vaulting On his swing through Oregon, Presidential Hopeful Nelson Rockefeller sprayed just a whiff of doubt that Vice President Richard Nixon could win enough independent and Democratic votes to win the presidential election (TIME, Nov. 23). Last week, in a visit to Rhode Island, he conceded that Nixon "probably" could win the election if it were held today. But, he added, "we can't foresee now what the circumstances will be a year from...
Rocky's retreat came in the nick of time. Last week's Gallup polls showed the Vice President well ahead and gaining when matched against either the Democrats' first runner, Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy, or the noncampaigning ghostly challenger, Adlai Stevenson...
Already pressing voter-registration suits against Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana, the Justice Department last week set out for the first time to uphold the right of a Negro to vote in a local election. Moving under the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the U.S. filed suit in Memphis federal court challenging a hoary custom of white Democrats in solidly Democratic Fayette County, Tenn.-the no-Negroes Democratic primary election conducted a year before each general election. Since in Fayette County the primary is the only real contest, the U.S. argued that Negroes are disfranchised by being barred...