Word: townes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agree with my party leader, Hubert Humphrey, that Howard Lee's victory over me in being elected mayor of the town of Chapel Hill is "a new breakthrough in Southern politics" [May 16]. For all of my adult life I have worked for the elimination of racial discrimination in this community, and I welcome the climate that has made it possible for a Negro to be elected to this town's highest office...
...Technical State University sat down at a Greensboro lunch counter. Peaceful but determined, the Negroes vowed not to move until they were served - and thereby set the pattern of nonviolent sit-ins that dominated black protest for years. Last week A. & T. students in the tobacco and textile town traded shots with police and National Guards men for three days. The contrast capsuled the revolution in the mode of protest in the U.S. that has taken place...
...trouble started when students in the town's all-Negro Dudley High School went on a rock-throwing spree to protest a school election from which a militant candidate had been barred...
Both sides quickly stiffened their efforts. Sheriff Frank I. Madigan, 61, empowered to act under a Governor's emergency decree issued during a previous student disorder, called in Guardsmen and police from surrounding areas. Soon 2,260 troops, plus cops and sheriff's deputies, patrolled the town and campus. Berkeley began to look like an occupied city, with Army Jeeps and trucks clogging the streets, helicopters patrolling the skies and "Yanqui go home" scrawled on walls. Protest marches of up to 4,000, though illegal under the emergency edict, became a daily occurrence. Late last week, Guardsmen surrounded...
...appearance in this symbol-minded film sadly recalls a 13-year absence from Hollywood. Like the High Lama in Lost Horizon, Widmark and Horne seem at once endlessly old and miraculously preserved, as if they were waiting for a revelation. Death of a Gunfighter is not it. In a town settling into the 20th century, stallions mix with horseless carriages and Mazda bulbs compete with gaslight. The contrast of periods is minor compared with the clutch of anachronisms offered by the script. Among them: police brutality, strained race relations, the lowly role of the Jew in society, adolescent...