L.Alex Wilson (pictured) was a 6’3” newspaper reporter who covered the admission of nine black students into the segregated Little Rock Central High School ; attacked and beaten by a brutal, white mob he walked on, picking up his sombrero whenever he fell, intent on doing his job as a newsman; the following morning , his report of the ‘Little Rock Nine’ appeared in the Tri-State Defender ;
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We have just spent a few gloriously sunny days in Eyemouth, an attractive, little fishing port in the SE of Scotland. It is Border country and traces of past wars are still visible. The topography of the landscape with its numerous little coves meant it was once
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