Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...civil rights legislation may affect the right to sell property to whomever one chooses. Let me put this "right" in focus in the light of my experience, which convinces me that federal laws have become as necessary to protect free trade in property as to protect free suffrage in Mississippi and Alabama...
...requirements of education and physique. One-third of American youth do not measure up to Defense Department standards, and each year the armed forces turn away 600,000 men, half of whom cannot pass the mental tests. Their rejection mirrors the U.S. poverty map: more than 68% fail in Mississippi, only 7.5% in Minnesota or Washington. To Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, besieged by critics of the draft's inequalities, this is one privilege that the poor can do without. Last week he announced plans to draft, over the next ten months, 40,000 men who failed to meet requirements...
...William Faulkner had made Gavin Stevens an artist instead of a lawyer, chances are the Mississippi novelist's folksy philosopher would have been just about the spitting image of Carroll Cloar. As it is, Cloar never made it into print, but with the retrospective of his works currently making the rounds of nine Southern cities, he has clearly added a colorful chapter of his own to the legendary South (see color page...
Harvard was the original owner of the Boyden Observatory when it was moved, in 1927, from Peru to Bloemfontein, in the Orange Free State -- what one South African described as the Mississippi of South Africa. In 1955 a cooperative was formed in which Harvard shared the Observatory with Northern Ireland, Ireland, Sweden, West Germany, and Belgium. On July 1, 1966 Harvard transfered its administrative and logistic responsibilities to the Smithsonian Astro-Physical Observatory which is closely linked with the Harvard Observatory...
...always been easy to kick Mississippi," noted an Administration aide. "But this is a new ball game." Just how new, Northern Congressmen discovered last week as the House began debate on the Johnson Administration's 1966 civil rights bill, the third such measure in as many years and the first to take aim at discrimination against Negroes in the North...