Word: wilmington
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Where were they? Headed for Wilmington? Leaving Cleveland? Circling Miami? Such was the pace of Republican William Scranton's headlong campaign for the G.O.P. presidential nomination that in the minds of aides and newsmen traveling with him in his chartered Electra, places and events blurred...
...heavily populated island of Oahu. The union therefore can ram almost any labor legislation through the legislature at the expense of Honolulu's underrepresented businessmen. Dominant farm legislators in Delaware have maintained a law that requires a farmers' market to be situated on a main street of Wilmington. Florida's Dade County (Miami) supplies 25% of the state's gasoline-tax revenue, gets back only 4% of this for highway construction; the county has 1,000,000 people, but not one state-supported park or beach. In many states, four-lane highways connect small...
...village of Ste.-Mère-Eglise, he sat on a bench with the wife of the wartime mayor. She pointed to the steeple of the church and told him about a paratrooper from Wilmington, N.C., whose chute had caught on it, and how he had hung there for hours, pretending to be dead. Eventually the Germans cut him down and took him prisoner...
...throughout the North. In Cleveland, after a week of racial violence, 800 bussed-in Negroes were fully integrated at some mostly white schools, and a threatened boycott called off. Negro militants-many of them wildcatters opposed by oldline Negro organizations-scheduled more boycotts in Chester, Pa., Cambridge, Md., and Wilmington, Del. The big targets later this month are Boston and Chicago, to be coupled with a possible second boycott in New York. Although some Negro politicians oppose the proposed boycott in Chicago, the nation's most visible Negro leader, Martin Luther King, last week gave the boycotters "my moral...
Tidy & Tiny. The short lines bear such quaint names as the Arcade & Attica, the Belfast & Moosehead Lake, the Hoosac Tunnel and Wilmington and the Tweetsie. Most of them are operated by small businessmen for whom railroading is still a shirtsleeve job and the romance of the rails a pleasant bonus. But apart from a handful, like North Carolina's Tweetsie, and the Reader Railroad in southwest Arkansas, which have made their puffing steam locomotives colorful and profitable tourist attractions, romance is not what the short lines are run for. Says an Interstate Commerce Commission official: "There's money...