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Black Vote. Carmichael, a wealthy Volkswagen dealer from the lively business center of Meridian, gained attention by winning an unprecedented 39% of the vote in the 1972 race for Eastland's Senate seat. In that campaign Carmichael was snubbed by Richard Nixon, who sent Spiro Agnew to appear with Eastland during visits to Mississippi. The cold shoulders helped Carmichael's reputation as an "independent Republican," a useful image in a state where less than 10% of the 1.1 million voters think of themselves as belonging to the G.O.P...
...Permits for strip mining on alluvial valley floors west of the 100th meridian (which runs from North Dakota to Texas) will not be issued for operations that threaten existing or potential farming or ranching activities...
...When 1975 was rung in last week at Britain's old Royal Greenwich Observatory, which is located on the meridian where the earth's time zones begin, it arrived precisely one second late. For official timekeepers everywhere, including the National Bureau of Standards in the U.S., the delay was significant. The earth's rotation (which forms the basis of time units-hours, minutes, seconds) is gradually slowing down-largely because of tidal friction. For that reason, the timekeepers decided a few years ago to make an occasional correction by inserting a so-called leap second. In that...
Those doctors and medical technicians who practice acupuncture according to the old Chinese principles put forth in this book maintain that it works by correcting an imbalance of Yin, the female element, and Yang, the male element. These traditionalists say there is an invisible system of meridians in the body and along each meridian there is a series of acupuncture points--supposedly 300 in all--which, when pierced correctly, can cure an illness...
...cast of Rodin's Hand of God, some Rouault aquatints and so forth. Third, with such few exceptions, it is an aesthetic swamp. If some mischievous curator had been asked to as semble a study collection of rhetorical sham, displaying all the cliches of modern art at their meridian of pious triviality, he could hardly have done better...