Word: georgias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Drug manufacturers are now rushing to make the new vaccine available in time to forestall an epidemic. But chances are it will not be ready until January. One serviceman returning from Viet Nam has already carried the new flu home to Georgia. In the meantime, doctors will have to rely on the old vaccine, which at best can provide only a modicum of protection...
...title of "Poorest State In The Nation" and its legendary smalltown sheriffs--may be more glamorous than Alabama; but Mississippi's notoriety has made it the target of many more civil rights projects than have ever come to Alabama. It's possible to make a good case for Southwest Georgia as the most segregated area in the country, but Georgia also contains semi-progressive Atlanta and black legislators like Julian Bond. South Carolina has Storm Thurmond, Louisiana has Leander Perez, and Arkansas and Tennessee have their residual rednecks. But for over-all misery--that combination of systematic oppression and debilitating...
...Georgia...
...come about in the future. Among them were a few of the new stars of 1968 like Allard K. Lowenstein, the New Yorker who founded the Dump Johnson campaign and put together a McCarthy-dominated Coalition for an Open Convention last summer with some Kennedy support, Julian Bond of Georgia, and Donald O. Peterson, the Wisconsin delegation chairman who refused to buckle under to Mayor Daley...
...this time NDC allies have taken over nine states outside the South, including Wisconsin and California and have substantial power (above forty per cent) in another ten. Including the semi-legitimate Georgia (Julian Bond) group and the newly recognized National Democratic Party of Alabama, the insurgent base is even greater...