RACES: Boycott in Tuskegee

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To encourage them, Sam Engelhardt made a double announcement in the state capital at Montgomery: he would 1) seek to block all state appropriations for the institute (it got $350,000 last year, is now asking for $500,000), and 2) demand a federal investigation of the VA Hospital. Beyond that, Engelhardt was ready with another helpful suggestion: if the Negroes, whom he would gerrymander out of the city, should become a problem in countywide elections, he was ready with a plan to dissolve Macon County, too.

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Swiss Justice Ministry spokesman FOLCO GALLI, on the decision to place director Roman Polanski under house arrest at his Alpine chalet. Swiss authorities say they won't appeal against a ruling granting bail
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