Word: mississippi
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...Mississippi, as the cheerful saying goes, "the drys have their law, the wets have their whisky and the state gets its taxes." Though they have the only statewide prohibition statute in the U.S., Mississippians have no trouble getting a drink in 59 of 82 counties. Bootleggers support the 58-year-old law because they can make a greater profit on liquor when it is illegal. Drinkers also generally approve of the dichotomy, although whisky smuggled from neighboring states costs more than anywhere else in the Southeast...
There are now 197,000 American servicemen on duty in South Viet Nam, and once the supply logjam is finally broken, possibly by next month, the rate of flow may raise that total to 600,000. Mississippi's Senator John Stennis, a member of the Armed Services Committee whose forecasts have proved to be notably accurate in the past, cited that figure last week as the minimum needed...
Most of them eventually dropped the levy in favor of more effective literacy tests, and the 24th Amendment to the Constitution (1964) barred it altogether in federal elections. Nonetheless, four states-Virginia, Mississippi, Alabama and Texas-still tax voters in local and state elections.* Last week, in accordance with a congressional directive in the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the Justice Department interceded in a suit brought against the Virginia levy by four Negroes "of very limited means," formally asked the Supreme Court to outlaw "for once and for all" this "serious clog in the exercise of the vote...
...Ionic columns, cracked and ivy-covered, remind students at the Colum bia campus of the University of Missouri that they attend the oldest state university west of the Mississippi. The columns are all that remain of the university's first academic hall, opened in 1843 and destroyed by fire...
James Joyce demonstrated among other things that even in the works of a genius the stream of consciousness not infrequently turns out to be a Mississippi of malarkey, but the lesson seems to have been lost upon Giuseppe Berto, a well-known Italian novelist (Il Cielo è Rosso) whose obvious talents fall considerably short of genius but whose latest novel, Incubus, nevertheless opens the sluices of association and requires the reader to navigate as best he can a torrent of reminiscence, admittedly autobiographical but attributed in the text to an aging author who some years previously, on the occasion...