Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was a typically tragic progression to some deaths. Mrs. Hattie Johnson of Cincinnati was chatting with James Smith, a caretaker, at the doorway to a store when his shotgun discharged and killed her. Charged with manslaughter, he said youths approached to loot the store, and his gun went off in the scuffle. All involved were Negroes; yet rumors that Mrs. Johnson was killed by a "white honky cop" sparked a riot. Noel Wright, 30, a white University of Cincinnati graduate student, was yanked from his car, beaten and fatally stabbed while his wife was savaged by Negro girls...
...where it had been sold the day before the slaying-but whether it was really the murder weapon was uncertain. Clark initially hinted that a ballistic test had yielded positive results. Subsequent reports that the unjacketed slug had been too badly mashed for a definite comparison to be made went undenied. Whether the palm and thumbprints, thought to be the assassin's, were of any help was also kept secret. Other rumors died quickly, such as the one that had a Memphis police officer under secret arrest. Said Assistant Police Chief U. T. Bartholemew: "We're struggling...
...White Flags. There were signs that Johnson was wigwagging his open left hand as well as prominently displaying his clenched right fist. U.S. planes, having ranged as far as the 20th parallel after the President declared a partial bombing pause, last week went no farther north than the 19th parallel-a difference of nearly 70 miles. For its part, however, Hanoi offered no sign that it was prepared to make a reciprocal gesture...
...setting. The last time that happened, he recalls only too well, was in 1951, when preliminary talks on ending the Korean War were held behind Communist lines in the village of Kae-song. U.S. officials were forced to thread through a hostile crowd and display white flags when they went to the table. The chief American negotiator, Vice Admiral C. Turner Joy, was seated on a chair markedly lower than the one used by his North Korean counterpart, and thus was compelled to look up to his opposite number. This time Johnson is determined that there will be no white...
...went on to say that if a fascist dictatorship were extended following Franco's death, the Spanish people would rise up in rebellion. The monarchy, on the other hand, can only be considered a temporary solution, he said...