Word: hogs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sponsors. All too aware of past attempts to thwart Negro voting rights, the writers of the bill have added a clause that would hog-tie evasive Southern legislatures. Once a state comes under federal vote controls, all its voting laws would be frozen as of last Nov. 1. No new regulations could be put into effect unless the District of Columbia federal court-a notably pro-civil rights body-approved them first. Moreover, even the qualifications on which a federal registrar would judge voter applicants would be approved by the Civil Service Commission and the Attorney General, although Congress...
...Weltner's predecessor was one James C. Davis, an eight-term Congressman who kept getting returned to Washington because of Georgia's unfair county-unit electoral system (which was loaded in favor of rural counties as against urban areas), his unflagging efforts to secure appropriations to fight hog cholera and water hyacinths, and his diehard segregationism. Then the county-unit system was overturned by the federal courts, the district was redrawn to include more of Atlanta and less of farm counties, and in 1962 along came Weltner to run against Davis. He had imposing Southern credentials...
...family is what the Spanish call olla podrida, or rotten pot, a mess. His brutal father dies, literally, rabid. His imbecile brother, whose ears were chewed off by a hog, drowns in an oil vat. Rosario, his sister, is the only one Pascual even begins to love. She is a whore practically from puberty. His feelings for her are more than slightly incestuous. When her lover seduces Pascual's wife, Pascual kills...
Food & Trade. There are more vegetables, pork and eggs. In many areas pork is off the ration, though its price makes it a luxury. Despite the ridicule he heaped on Khrushchev's incentive measures, Mao permits hog farmers, after delivering their fixed quotas to collectives, to sell the balance on a free market. Dogs and cats, slaughtered wholesale for food during the Leap, are again appearing with impunity in Peking and Shanghai, and even birds-once relentlessly exterminated as predators-have returned to Canton...
...China's'trade with non-Communist countries has burgeoned from $673.9 million a decade ago to a record $1.8 billion this year, itself 20% above 1963.-Peking imports fertilizer, cotton, chemicals, steel and industrial machinery, exports soybeans, coal, iron ore, rice, tea and hog bristles...