Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life Rosa Parks, who touched off the Birmingham, Ala., bus boycott one day in 1955 when she refused to stand up for a white passenger because her feet hurt. Lucas Beauchamp catches to perfection the abrasive, unbending independence of a man like James Meredith, who integrated the University of Mississippi three months after Faulkner's death...
...could still be unpredictable and self-contradictory. His most notorious statement on the racial crisis came in the course of a rambling, angry Oxford interview in February 1956 with British Newsman Russell Warren Howe, who reported Faulkner as saying: "If it came to fighting I'd fight for Mississippi against the United States even if it meant going out into the street and shooting Negroes...
Such views hardly make a man a radical from the Northern point of view. But in Mississippi, Hodding Carter recalls, people who had always vaguely thought that "Bill Faulkner is one of us" by the mid-'50s were calling him "small-minded Willie, the nigger lover." He was the target of abusive mail and crank phone calls. Around Oxford there were stores and filling stations that refused to serve...
TRANSPLANTS Questions of the Heart History's first transplant of a heart, from a chimpanzee to a dying man (TIME, Jan. 31), was a significant surgical achievement. But the difficulties that surrounded the operation, say University of Mississippi Surgeon James D. Hardy and his colleagues, were more than problems of cutting and suturing. What bothered the doctors as much as anything else, they report in the A.M.A. Journal, were matters of timing and questions of ethics...
When they finally got a patient unquestionably in need of a heart transplant, they turned to the chimpanzee as a source. The chimp's heart proved too small for the patient, who was a big man, and the transplant failed after a couple of hours. The Mississippi doctors say they learned enough about the surgical techniques involved to convince them that "this operation may some day add years of life to many patients." But the process of learning has only pointed up the problems that are still far from solution-the ethical questions and the matter of timing...