Word: mississippi
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...carry Vermont, the first since 1912 to win Maine. He made a clean sweep of the Midwest, the Mountain and Border States, the West Coast, appeared to have lost only Arizona in the Southwest. Only in the South did Barry Goldwater score a breakthrough, capturing Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina. Remarkably, the pattern of Democrat Johnson's victory was strikingly similar to Republican Dwight Eisen- hower's in 1956-only with the party loyalties reversed...
...nation" in a long are of affluence. In mid-state, a broad swathe of black top-soil has nurtured corn and conservatism for nearly a century and a half. And in the South, a barren tableau of worn-out coal fields and sleepy towns--Cairo, Illinois, is closer to Mississippi than Chicago--is punctuated only by the Negro slums of East St. Louis...
...LEAGUE Harvard 34Penn 0 Cornell 57 Columbia 20 Yale 24 Dartmouth 15 Princeton 14 Brown 0 SOUTH Memphis St. 23 Wake Forest 14 LSU 11 Mississippi 10 Georgia Tech 21 Duke 8 Alabama 23 Mississippi St. 10 Florida 14 Auburn 0 Georgia 24 N. Carolina 8 NFL Green Bay 42 Minnesota 13 AFL Buffalo 24 Houston 10 New York 35 Boston 14 Kansas City 49 Denver 39 San Diego 31 Oakland...
...civil rights revolution has raised sharp questions. Where can a Mississippi Negro, for example, seek relief if the state denies him a fair trial and a federal judge refuses to listen? Must he travel the long road through the state courts to the U.S. Supreme Court? All over the South, arrested civil rights workers have complained that the tradition of immediate remand denies them federal hearings in cases of obviously violated constitutional rights. The answer to their complaint is Title IX of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which now permits remands to be appealed to U.S. courts of appeals...
Spurred by the promise of Title IX, which became effective in July, more and more remand appeals have plagued the South's Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. The cases range from trumped-up traffic violations against Mississippi rights workers to group petitions for several hundred defendants (including Massachusetts' Mrs. Malcolm Peabody, the Governor's mother) who were involved in last spring's racial demonstrations in St. Augustine...