Word: misse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...NAACP is appealing a lawsuit it lost last September when a Mississippi court judge awarded $1.25 million to white merchants in Port Gibson, Miss. The shop owners had sued the NAACP for damages resulting from a 1966 boycott that protested discrimination against blacks...
...only the start of the campaign. Cabinet and sub-Cabinet officials are being issued informational packets to help them weave a pitch for the energy program into just about any speech they have scheduled to any kind of audience anywhere in the country. The President himself is unlikely to miss a chance, no matter what the context, to tuck in a remark or two on moral equivalents of war and the like. The Democratic National Committee and local party officials are putting together energy task forces to sell the White House policy to civic groups. The Administration is plotting ways...
Some who are skeptical about how much sacrifice is necessary are nevertheless willing to make personal decisions that, if multiplied by millions, would create the shifts Carter's plan seeks. Vance Nimrod of Greenville, Miss., does not intend to get rid of his current Cadillac, but vows: "I'll never buy another one." Richard Otis, a bricklayer in Memphis, had been thinking about buying a Lincoln Continental, but is now looking at smaller cars. Even without the possibility of increased oil-heating costs, Patty Hotchkiss, a town board member in Bedford, N.Y., is looking for a small, well-insulated house...
After initial confusion, Philadelphians are coping with their crisis so well that they no longer seem to miss their public transportation. The Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, with the aid of two banks, organized more than 1,000 car pools. Bicyclists now weave through the streets. Botany '500' is using delivery trucks to bring 300 workers to its clothing-manufacturing plant; another company has rented a fleet of private buses. ConRail, now handling double its normal number of commuters, has reactivated mothballed equipment. Municipal agencies and many firms have staggered working hours, giving employees the option to come...
Annie is an abandoned child of the cruel Depression era. She is incarcerated in a kind of kids' San Quentin where the whisky-swigging warder, Miss Hannigan (Dorothy Loudon), mistreats her charges with fiendish glee. Loudon brings a hammy leering venom to the part that releases howls from playgoers, though her performance will surely appall any admirer of acting restraint...