Word: mississippi
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...Involuntary. But state courts, which handle most U.S. criminal cases, have been another matter. The Fifth Amendment was long thought not to apply to them at all. The Supreme Court did not even attack the use of coerced confessions in state courts until the 1936 case of Brown v. Mississippi, when it reversed the murder convictions of three Negroes who had confessed only after being all but lynched...
OFFENSE •QUATERBACK: Rick Norton, 22, Kentucky, 6ft. 1 in., 1961bs. Playing for a team that started out like a lion (with victories over Missouri and Mississippi) and wound up like a lamb (losing to Houston and Archrival Tennesee), Norton completed 113 out of 214 passes for 1,893 ards and eleven touchdowns. He injured a knee in Kentucky's next-to-last game, had to undergo an operation. The bad knee makes Norton a questionable commodity, but he is still "the best...
...GUARDS: John Niland, 21, Iowa, 6 ft. 3 in., 240 lbs., and Stan Hindman, 21, Mississippi, 6 ft. 3 in., 235 lbs. Usually the pros resign themselves to making guards out of college tackles, because college guards are too small. Not this year. Iowa was the doormat of the Big Ten, but Niland still drew raves from 14 pro teams. Hindman, the scouts marvel, "can play any offensive or defensive position in the line, and he is as fast as most fullbacks...
...correspondence. A few weeks later Richard Oswald, a sagacious Scot, arrived in Paris with authority to negotiate. Franklin dutifully informed Vergennes, and then informed Oswald of the principal American peace conditions: "compleat independence," territorial integrity, freedom to fish on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland, freedom to navigate the Mississippi, no treaty without full French approval...
...Diplomatic Lesson. After four weeks of discreet conversations, the negotiators completed the "preliminary articles" of a treaty that conceded all the major U.S. demands and envisioned a nation extending from the Atlantic to the Mississippi and from the Great Lakes to northern Florida-Minnesota, and with it the stupendous Mesabi iron lode, were included by a cartographical accident. On Nov. 30, 1782, the preliminary articles, which for all practical purposes constituted the final document, were signed. Vergennes was promptly informed. He was stunned. But when he protested "the unhappy news," Franklin cheerfully apologized for "neglecting a point of propriety...