Word: walnuts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Robert Lewis, 36, a sometime Western Union messenger, liked to hang around the only grocery store in Walnut, Calif, (pop. 929) and bend Co-Owner Leonard Harvey's ear. "I'm proud to say I got nothing against the Negro," Lewis would boast. "Why, I served with them in the Army for eight years, eleven months and 23 days." Grocer Harvey listened sympathetically; after all, he and the rest of Walnut knew that Lewis was the Negro's champion, and had thereby got himself on somebody's hate list...
Lewis' troubles began last December, after the Walnut town fathers refused his demand that they build a road to his one-acre lot on a bungalow-filled slope grandly misnamed Castle Hill. His wife Eva threatened to retaliate by selling the property to Negroes...
...House and Nashville, Tenn.; Christopher Goetze '61, of Randolph, N.H.; John A. Graham '64, of Lowell House and Tacoma, Wash.; Richard G.C. Millikan '63, of Leverett House and Berkeley, Cal.; David S. Roberts '65, of Dunster House and Boulder, Colo.; and Donald C. Jensen '65, of Dunster House and Walnut Creek...
California's 23rd Congressional District, just southeast of Los Angeles, used to be a land of orange groves and walnut trees. Since World War II, it has boomed as a center of industry (Firestone, Goodrich, Bethlehem Steel, North American Aviation), middle-class housing-and Democrats...
...alone, except for guards, almost on the spot from which he had addressed his his toric Vatican Council II. In the next two days, more than 1,000,000 people shuffled by the body to pay their last respects. On Thursday night, the body, inside a triple coffin of walnut, lead and cypress, was placed in the crypt beneath St. Peter's; eventually, in accordance with John's wishes, it will be moved to the Basilica of St. John Lateran, the Pope's cathedral as Bishop of Rome. Then the priests and nuns who had served John...