Word: gone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...county courthouse and, if you could afford it, you had barbecues. You shook every hand you could find, and it was all face to face. It's all changed now. You are talking to people sitting quietly in their living rooms. The atmosphere of the old public meeting is gone. You have to be attractive physically and look good. Abraham Lincoln wouldn't have been very successful...
...Democratic Senator Ernest ("Fritz") Rollings: "When I first came up here, they had all of us Southerners meeting around [Georgia's Senator] Dick Russell. Later on we met for a while around [Louisiana's] Allen Ellender and decided what to do about a busing amendment. Those days are gone. We don't see our interest now as being any different from any other section of the country." Adds Florida's Senator Chiles: "A lot of new Southern political talent is being liberated now. I don't think the South still needs the kind of power the old committee chairmen...
...send their children on long bus rides to get to the private schools. Admittedly, the academies may have eased the desegregation process to some degree. As one Meridian, Miss., white fifth-grader told his mother some years back: "There won't be any trouble; all the troublemakers have gone to the private schools...
...Houston school superintendent. Like virtually everyone else Levy hired, Broyles was under 30 and almost innocent of journalistic experience. That was no handicap. After its first year, Texas Monthly won a National Magazine Award for specialized journalism, the first time the magazine industry's Oscar has gone to a newcomer...
...through his reforms, the chief justice was also wielding his official and personal power to chop into a horrifying backlog of cases. He drafted 55 retired or underworked judges to dispose of hundreds of appeals cases that had languished for as long as five years. Result: the backlog is gone. Since 1973 the appellate docket has been "current," a rarity for state courts. By mixing public praise for jurists who cut their trial backlog with private tongue-lashings for those who did not, Heflin achieved a 16% drop in criminal trial delays in the face of a 48% jump...