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Alerted that the stolen papers could endanger national security, the FBI tried to buy them back, but the deal fell through. Last week a grand jury in California returned a secret indictment in the theft. It reportedly cited only one defendant, Donald Woolbright, who is still at large. But in the process of investigating the theft, local police got into the act, and eventually the Los Angeles Times got a garbled version of Jennifer from a tipster. On Feb. 8 of this year the newspaper ran a story about a CIA-Hughes contract to raise a Soviet submarine supposedly sunk...
...people of Lacey, Miss, had reason to be proud of themselves and of their town. After a history stained by lynching and violence, they had acquired a new sheriff who was outspokenly determined to apply justice equally to blacks and whites. The leading politician, Kerney Woolbright, backed the sheriff's policy. So did Jason Hunt, the town's rich man. Even Bootlegger Jimmy Tallant was willing to accept this manifestation of the "new South"-provided his business was left alone...
Before he dies, Woolbright and Hunt have fled his side, the town has cried for his blood, and Lacey's Negroes have again heard the growls of the lynch mob. The brief reign of the "new South" in Lacey dies also, leaving the survivors with nothing more than bitter knowledge of failure. Author Spencer, who was born and raised in Carrollton, Miss. (pop. 475), has, like many Southern writers, a poet's sense of words. Unlike most, she brings a disciplined mind and an invigorating economy to her third novel. Time and again, an imaginative phrase pins...
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