Word: mississippi
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...where 1) such tests were used as a voting qualification as of last Nov. 1, and 2) less than 50% of the voting-age population were registered to vote or actually cast ballots in the 1964 presidential election. The device will automatically send federal examiners into Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and a number of counties in other states including North Carolina and Virginia. The triggering device was the main feature of the bill drafted by Administration lawyers and Dirksen's staff, but the Senate added a few wrinkles of its own by providing that: >In any county...
...Attorney General will challenge the constitutionality of poll taxes levied in state and local elections in Alabama, Mississippi, Texas and Virginia (the 24th Amendment bars poll taxes in federal elections). At the same time, the bill declares that such taxes amount to an infringement on the right to vote by discriminating against the poor, and particularly Negroes...
Many physicians still prescribe modest doses of whisky for heart patients in the belief that alcohol increases the blood flow to the heart muscle by dilating blood vessels. But does it? Researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and at the University of Mississippi found that a few shots slowed up blood flow in dogs' hearts, and a few more forced the heart to work harder. Moving from animals to humans, investigators at the New Jersey College of Medicine found that men who took six or seven drinks over two hours suffered reduced pumping action...
...Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Wyoming...
This sort of sentiment has little in common with that of such other Southern Senators as Mississippi's Jim Eastland, South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, Georgia's Herman Talmadge, or even Georgia's Richard Russell, whose sometimes courtly, sometimes acid-tongued combativeness has been badly missed by the Senate's Southerners in their fight against the voting rights bill. Russell has been out for almost four months with emphysema, a lung ailment, but last week he announced that he felt fit enough to run for a seventh term next year...