Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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QUOTE OF NOTE: "One of the things in Mississippi that's held us back is that the traditional African-American politicians are stuck in the 1960s. That turns some people...
...37th, and Nebraska has remained a wide-open, Great Plains region ever since, with a unicameral legislative body composed of 49 nonpartisan Senators. For half a century, Nebraska has been one of the most Republican states in presidential elections--and has had three Republican U.S. Representatives since the 1960s--but has kept both its Senators Democrat. With James Exon retiring, however, that could change. In a state that is the world's best place to make a living by phone (a telemarketer's haven) and the birthplace of both Johnny Carson and Malcolm X--well, there's more than goldenrod...
...arable land. But when people began to scratch below the surface, they discovered there was a reason to move to Nevada: silver. Miners came in the mid-1800s, and visions of a different kind of silver drew even more speculators when casinos began to open in the 1960s. Nevada is traditionally Democratic, but an influx of newcomers in the 1980s has given Republicans a foothold here. But however inhospitable the Sagebrush State may be to farmers (and moderates), Democrats see the Second District's open seat as fertile ground...
...titles such as Marine Oils, Fish Meal and The World Market for Bovine Meat, but I had never thought about the possibility of actually holding it in my hands. Once I discovered the right shelf, I opened up a volume from 1930s, and there was Hemingway; one from the 1960s, and there was Mailer. It was the literary history of the twentieth century, trussed up in a neat package from which some intrepid historiographer could make a book...
DIED. BERYL REID, 76, British actress who won acclaim in the 1960s role of the lesbian soap-opera star in both the stage and film versions of The Killing of Sister George; in Slough, England...