Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small country (the size of Mississippi) with a population of 13 million, North Korea is impressively armed and viciously anti-American. Over the past few years, Kim has singled out the U.S. for opprobrium unmatched by any other Communist nation: "Tear the limbs off the U.S. beast," he urged last year. "Behead it all over the world...
Before World War II, Levi Strauss was a $10 million-a-year firm with operations largely west of the Mississippi. After the war, it moved eastward. Then, recalls Walter Haas Jr., 53, a great-grand-nephew of the founder and the firm's president since 1958, "we did something very basic. We began concentrating on the teen-age market." As its youthful customers grew older, the company kept their trade by bringing out "white Levi's" and later a full line of men's casual wear. Last year it introduced "Levi's for gals," a line...
Most American cities are in trouble. Few are in more trouble than East St. Louis, III., a decaying industrial suburb across the Mississippi from St. Louis' soaring Gateway Arch...
...most cities east of the Mississippi that are old enough to have run-down slums, doctors have long thought they had correctly estimated the annual incidence of lead poisoning in children. New York City has had an average of about 600 cases a year reported for the past decade. Baltimore has averaged 25, Cleveland 50, Chicago 155. But at a conference held last week at Manhattan's Rockefeller University, researchers suggested that these figures are gross underestimates. New York City may have as many as 30,000 cases, and the total for the U.S. may run as high...
...COME a long way in a very short time. Only a few years ago the country's problems were safely cooped up in Mississippi and Alabama, and the Federal government was on our side. The Movement was a good-hearted affair with plenty of idealism and not too much analysis. Its politics were still those of the fifties: everyone pretty much agreed with everyone else about most everything, and young people had to go South to find things that were obviously wrong...