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What Perry always had was sizzling speed, the kind that gave him five no-hitters as a high school ace back home in Williamston, N.C. In 1958, the Giants shelled out $60,000 just to get him on the roster, but for a while it seemed a forlorn investment. His fastball was wild, and when he tried to develop a slider (or fast curve) it was too slow. It took eight years and several elevator rides to the minors before Perry learned to improve his control, to keep the ball low and to give himself another effective pitch. This spring...
...Williamston Kid: the $123,400 Florida Derby for three-year-olds; at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale, Fla. A 90-1 long shot that had not won a race this year, Williamston Kid actually finished second, a neck behind Abe's Hope. But after 15 minutes of studying patrol films, the stewards disqualified Abe's Hope for interfering with another horse, and lucky bettors with tickets on the bay colt collected $183.60 for every...
...struck and put up a sign: CLOSED IN DESPAIR. CIVIL RIGHTS BILL UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Two days later, Gammill announced that henceforth the Robert E. Lee was a private club open to members only. A Richmond, Va., steakhouse also turned private, and restaurants in Charlottesville, Va., and Durham, N.C., and a Williamston, N.C., theater closed their doors for good rather than comply...
SCLC is currently raising $20,000 to be used for bail and incidental expenses incurred in its work in St Augustine, Fla., and Williamston, N.C. Contributions are being collected for SCLC at Memorial Church and at Christ Church in Cambridge. Checks should be made out to SCLC, and may be mailed to 41 Winthrop St. Roxbury...
SCLC has also organized a less publicized community-wide attempt in Williamston, North Carolina. Three students at the Divinity School went down as representatives of the Harvard Divinity School Civil Rights Committee...