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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brought cries of political blackmail from the floor of the legislature. Scranton, who is ineligible to succeed himself, was in a fighting mood. Said he: "The history of our state, as we all know, is replete with instances in which the second half of an administration becomes a poaching ground for unscrupulous politicians.This is not going to happen this time. This administration will become a lameduck administration at high noon Jan. 17, 1967, and not ten seconds earlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Governors: Confrontation in the Statehouse | 1/15/1965 | See Source »

...Court of Appeals ruled against Judge Fox. Since that leaves Smoot, in effect, the victor, the league's lawyers are now honing an appeal to the Supreme Court on the ground that the ladies of Grand Traverse may be in for future trouble if they now fail to fight for the right to speak their minds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Libel: Possum-Playing Plaintiff | 1/15/1965 | See Source »

...into the desert and discovered another buried mastaba. When he uncovered its southern burial shaft, he found it filled with thousands of mummified ibises. The bodies of the long-legged birds were wrapped in cloth, stuffed into pottery jars, and piled up like bricks. Digging deeper in the ground, Emery found an amazing network of ancient tunnels, most of them piled to their roofs with ibis mummies. Since the ibis was an Egyptian symbol of wisdom, they indicated to Emery that somewhere near by had stood the long-lost shrine of Imhotep, the Egyptian father of medicine, who was probably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: Search for the First Intellectual | 1/15/1965 | See Source »

Echoed Arguments. Though the Citizen's owners said their offer was in spired by local loyalty, the Justice Department thought differently. Last week trustbusters descended on Tucson, charged that the Citizen-Star deal was illegal on the ground that it violated both the Clayton and Sherman antitrust acts. Justice Department arguments echoed those used last June against the Scripps-Howard chain. In that suit, the Government charged that chain ownership of both the morning Enquirer and evening Post & Times-Star in Cincinnati constituted a monopoly, even though the two papers had separate plants, staffs and editorial policies, an arrangement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publishing: Trustbusters in Tucson | 1/15/1965 | See Source »

King said Sunday night that the immediate battle-ground must be Mississippi, that she must be the test of "massive political action," that in bringing her around we will bring all America around. Focussing on Mississippi, one can see what may divide King's establishment coalition from its reluctant colleagues. Is Mississippi a grotesque, diseased abberation? Or is she only an exaggerated extension of American society itself...

Author: By Jacob R. Brackman, | Title: Martin Luther King | 1/13/1965 | See Source »

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