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...progressive, his stand on civil rights was positively liberal in a Border State that still retains many vestiges of segregation. At his urging, a 306-year-old antimiscegenation law was repealed, the state public-accommodations law was broadened, and the first state open-housing law south of the Mason-Dixon Line was enacted. Negroes were appointed to some high offices and, for the first time, to the Governor's personal staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE UNLIKELY NO. 2 | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

...limousine and champagne and caviar to seduce the willowy government agent; even the Viet Cong would find that amusing. On the U.S. side, Wayne's self-conscious heroes penetrate into the Communist-base area by parachute and then traipse through forests that are obviously south of the Mason-Dixon line rather than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: The Real Berets | 7/19/1968 | See Source »

...lbis, however, has far from dominated the hoaxes and scandals centering around the Lampoon building in Freedom Square, including a long history of hassles with courts and police due to charges of obscenity in their magazine, with such articles as "Desire Below the Mason-Dixon Line," a 1935 parody of Faulkner...

Author: By Betsy Nadas, | Title: Salute to Times Past: The Lampoon lbis | 6/3/1968 | See Source »

WHAT is the relationship between the Mason-Dixon line, the DMZ, the China Wall, the 38th parallel and the Berlin Wall? What do the words Realpolitik and denouement mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Sep. 8, 1967 | 9/8/1967 | See Source »

...helps him to his feet. The two quickly discover that they have some things in common-cunning and duplicity. The grifter is the Flim Flam Man, a wheezy, sleazy slicker who for half a century has taken yokels with potency pills, crooked cards and his smooth Mason-Dixon line. The drifter is AWOL from Fort Bragg, and hungry. Scott proposes a merger, and the two are soon fast-shuffling their way to fortune, until the locals get wise to their brand of three-card monte and call the cops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Conned Goods | 9/1/1967 | See Source »

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