Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cotton planter, onetime director of the state's segregationist White Citizens' Council, and a reform-minded penologist. Several years ago, as a member of the Mississippi Senate and chairman of its penitentiary committee, he became dedicated to trying to make over the state prison at Parchman, a grim, swampy place noted for its liberal use of the lash. "I had a lot of ideas about prison reform," says Jones, "but they were either killed or watered down next to nothing in the legislature. I figured the only way I could get some of them into practice...
Harvard lost both its first two games by one-goal margins. Two weeks ago Yale wrapped up its victory in the last minute, and in last week's game at Providence, Brown's second half score was the only tally in a grim 5-0 defeat for the Crimson...
...midweek President Kennedy summoned Democratic congressional leaders to a White House conference on the Laos crisis. They came out of the meeting grim-faced and tightlipped. "It was very distressing," said one, "very distressing." At week's end, with the news from Laos getting more distressing by the hour, the President called the National Security Council into session for the third time in eight days...
Most of the 500,000 soldiers in Algeria are not regulars but conscripts, and as they listened over their radios to De Gaulle's grim voice, to the news of the solidarity strike that saw 10 million workers halt work to demonstrate their backing for De Gaulle, they knew they wanted no part of the rebellion. Where their officers had gone over to Challe-as in Oran and Constantine-they started sabotage operations, misdirecting supplies, pouring water in truck gasoline tanks...
Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). A rebroadcast of the grim documentary, Suicide Run to Murmansk, the story of a World War II convoy that lost 22 of 33 merchant ships...