Maddox defends public safety claim amid race integration incident
Atlanta restaurateur Lester Maddox says he received nationwide financial support for his legal challenge after he used a public safety item and ax handles to deter three Black students from dining. A Fulton Civil Court judge noted a jury could decide if the action was justified, and Maddox was ordered held on $1,000 bond. His business reportedly rose 25 to 40 percent in the past week.
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Russia
Jane Powell Rosenthal
Brooklyn Museum
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America
Dorothy Tricarico
Design Laboratory
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Marion Conrad
Texas junior colleges study non scholarship athletic conference
Alton Laird chairs a temporary committee at Lee College to form a 12 college non scholarship athletic conference. Representatives from Lee Concordia San Antonio College Gulf Coast Bible College Del Mar College meet Sept 19 in Austin to draft a constitution. The plan envisions two zones North and South with listed member institutions and a September 1965 activation date.
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Division of Physical Education
Lee College
Texas
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Lee
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Cooke County of Gainesville
Christian College of the Southwest
Garland
Austin
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Alvin College
San
Republican Platform Pledges On Key Issues
New York AP reports on the 1964 Republican platform pledges covering civil rights, fiscal policy, health care, and Viet Nam. The piece quotes scholars on fashion erosion, outlines party stances, and notes cultural debates sparked by topless and demibikini fashions.
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San Francisco
Viet Nam
Cuba
OAS
United States
Elizabeth's
Khrushchev Announces Pension Raises For Soviet Farmers
Soviet Premier Khrushchev announced pension boosts affecting about 6.5 million peasants as part of a broader wage rise package. The plan sets minimum monthly pensions of 12.20 dollars and maximums of 112.20 dollars starting next year, tied to pre-retirement wage levels, with full effect by end of 1965.
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Orusneney
Sovie Union
Supreme Soviet
Tass
RES Cy
Sterilization One Answer To Poverty Backers Say
Berea Kentucky reports a voluntary sterilization program for needy parents as a potential answer to poverty. Six couples with 53 children have applied, supported by a $25,000 New York funded project. Critics fear stigma and work time loss, while advocates cite reduced poverty in Appalachia.
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O.L. Keener
Oy the Human Betterment Association For
New York
J Hartman
Keener
Appalachia
Libya presses for Air Base closure at Wheelus
Libyan Foreign Minister Hussein Mazak, in Cairo for an African summit, says Libya seeks an immediate agreement in principle to withdraw from Wheelus air base, the last U.S. installation in Africa. He accuses the United States of refusing and extending the base by six more years. Mazak predicts Britain will end its base there within three years.
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Egypt
Libya
United States
Wheelus
U.S
Africa
Hussein Mazak
Catro
Mazak
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