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One of the most interesting inhabitants of our world is the bee, an insect which is indigenous to all parts of the globe except the polar region. The honeybee is a gregarious insect whose habitat is a colony which he shares with as many as 80,000 bees. Although the individual bees live for only a …

After Danny Escobedo’s release from prison, hundreds of inmates began suits for their freedom on the grounds that their rights had been violated, too. Each case is being heard on its merits, and in numerous instances, people who had been convicted of serious offenses have been freed because of the new standards established in the …

Lawyer Kroll persevered in his defense of Dany Escobedo. The case was argued before the Supreme Court, and in 1964, in a landmark decision, the Court reversed Danny’s conviction. Legal aid, said the judges, must be instantly available to a suspect. “A system of law enforcement which comes to depend on the confession,” one justice …

Barry Kroll, a Chicago lawyer, took an interest in Dany Escobedo’s case. Kroll felt that his client’s right under the Construction had been abrogated. Since the alleged accomplice, Escobedo, had been denied access to an attorney, Kroll asked the courts to invalidate the conviction. He proposed that lawyers be entitled to sit when the police …

Some month later Dorie Miller was serving on an aircraft carrier when Admiral Chester Nimitz, the Commander of the Pacific Fleet, came aboard to preside over a special award with the prestigious Navy Cross, commending his for a singular act a valor and “disregard for his own personal safety.” Miller’s heroism helped to shatter to …

Men all around Miller were succumbing to the lethal spray of Japanese bullets. He dragged his captain to safety and turned back to see that the machine-gunner had been killed. Dorie took that big gun and trained it on the incoming bombers. Within the space of ten minutes he was credited with destroying four bombers …

The quarantine method for handling bigots implies more than giving them the silent treatment. Prof. Fineberg urges the community-relations organizations to scrutinize the nefarious activities of hate-mongers and to be prepared to furnish information about them to amicable inquirers. When a rabble-rouser is coming, those organizations should privately expose him to opinion-molders. In addition, constructive …

The cofee cups suddenly went spinning as an explosion knocked Dorie Miller flat on his back. Jumping up from his supine position, the powerfully-built Negro mess man from Waco, Texas headed for the deck. Everywhere that Dorie looked he saw smoke and mammoth warships lying on their sides. Overheated dozens of Japanese dive bombers controlled …

At breakfast time on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941, Dorie Miller was serving coffee aboard  the battleship West Virginia. Dorie was a Negro, and the highest job to which he could then aspire  in the U.S Navy was that of messman. While Dorrie was technically a member of a great flight fleet, he was not …