Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...policy in Viet Nam and longtime supporters of the armed forces expressed their dismay. A White House statement called such a massacre "abhorrent to the conscience of all the American people." Defense Secretary Melvin Laird said he was "horrified." Secretary of the Army Stanley Resor termed the story "appalling." Mississippi Senator John Stennis, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he was "shocked...
...aimed at convincing the South's conservatives that the Republican Party offers them permanent shelter. It is designed also to deny Democrats the sure votes they once could count on in Dixie. Wallace's re-emergence could once again cost Nixon the electoral votes of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. It could also force him to risk losing the support of those in the center of the political spectrum by more actively courting the hard-liners in the South. This could split the conservative vote in states like Georgia and Arkansas and give the Democrats there a victory...
...harmless in a short time. At the same time, the district hired a team of scientists from the University of California at Davis to find a way to control the gnats biologically. Led by Entomologist Sherburne F. Cook Jr., the team decided that a small fresh-water smelt, the Mississippi silverside, might find the gnats appetizing. In 1967 they "planted" 3,000 fingerlings in the lake...
Triumphant Symbol. Teddy bears are precisely 67 years old. The name was attached to a new line of stuffed bruins manufactured by the forerunner of the Ideal Toy Corp. and by Germany's Steiff Co. after President Theodore Roosevelt, on an expedition to Mississippi in 1902, refused to shoot a bear cub. Washington Star Cartoonist Clifford Berryman instantly made the cub a symbol for Roosevelt, and the country went for the notion lock, stock, and bear jokes. (If T.R. is President when he is fully dressed, went one knee-slapper, what is he with his clothes off? Answer: Teddy...
...Pockets. Early this month, a grand jury in Jackson, Miss., charged that the state insurance commission is "in the pockets of the insurance companies." The jurors added: "The people of Mississippi can only expect to be skinned by these companies." Last week a grand jury at Pascagoula handed in another critical report. Most of the controversy centers around Commission Member Erskine Wells, a lawyer whose firm represents many insurance firms, and State Insurance Commissioner Walter Dell Davis, an ex-officio member of the commission, who has been accused of being too cozy with insurers. In the wake of the storm...