Word: maine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voting-age population were registered to vote or actually cast ballots in the 1964 presidential election. The device will automatically send federal examiners into Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and a number of counties in other states including North Carolina and Virginia. The triggering device was the main feature of the bill drafted by Administration lawyers and Dirksen's staff, but the Senate added a few wrinkles of its own by providing that: >In any county where the U.S. Census Director finds that less than 25% of the adult Negro population is registered, federal examiners may be appointed...
Quite Enough. The main effect of the bill will be to enfranchise some 3,000,-000 Negroes, mostly Southern. It is impossible to reckon how many will avail themselves of the right. But almost certainly, enough of them will register and vote to change the complexion of Southern politics...
Plenty to Celebrate. The main theme of the week, of course, was "crush Malaysia," and Sukarno's invaders were trying to do just that. In the biggest action of the two-year border war, more than 100 Indonesian regulars tackled British and Malaysian troops in a running jungle battle on Sarawak...
Clots & Strokes. Obstructions involving the iliac, femoral and popliteal arteries supplying the legs and feet are common, and may actually begin in the aorta just before it splits to form the two main iliac arteries. A familiar feature of insufficient blood supply to the legs, which causes pain in the calf muscles so acute that the victim can hardly walk, is its on-again, off-again nature. Ten days after DeBakey has bypassed the blocked artery with a length of tubing, the patient who previously could walk no farther than a city block without disabling pain can usually...
...long land war between Colonel Horacio da Silveira, who is rumored to have sold his soul to the Devil, and the ferocious Badaró brothers, Juca and Sinhõ. Neither Juca nor Colonel Horacio would dream of having a face-to-face showdown in Ilhéus' main street, but each knew that every tree, every clump of bushes, every dark alley might conceal an assassin...