Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then, battering northwest into the Gulf of Mexico, Betsy hurtled full-blast into Louisiana and Mississippi. In the Delta lowlands, where Audrey in 1957 took 518 lives in one Louisiana parish, 250,000 refugees sought shelter in schools and churches. The Delta was even more seriously hurt than the Miami area. Overall, property damage was estimated at $500 million...
...week's end, as the hurricane knocked itself out over the Mississippi Valley, the Weather Bureau announced that the name Betsy, used once before as a storm designation, will be retired for at least ten years "because of this hurricane's infamy...
...Mississippi's Governor Paul Johnson, who cannot run for re-election and thus has no need to court the segregationist vote, last month urged his state to comply with the new federal Voting Rights Act. In any event, warned the Governor, "any effort through the courts to obtain relief from this act is unlikely to succeed...
...Mississippi's Attorney General Joe Patterson seems not to have been listening. Last week Patterson, who will be up for re-election in 1967, went right ahead with a last-ditch legal fight against the voting law that seemed to be more a campaign gesture than anything else. Filing bills of complaint in chancery courts of four Mississippi counties now under federal registration supervision, he asked for injunctions permitting local officials to reject any voters-federally registered or not-who did not comply with state registration laws. Those laws, which were overwhelmingly approved in a statewide referendum this summer...
...instruction that they had-but which the Ivy League has since outgrown. (If Sewanee cannot match the glories of Ivy League athletics, it can at least boast an illustrious football past: in 1899, before football was confined to Saturdays, Sewanee knocked off Texas, Texas A. & M., Tulane, L.S.U. and Mississippi all in the same week...