Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Richard T. Rives, means that neither a state nor the Federal Government "can, openly or secretly, participate in the affairs of any religious organization." The decision, which also reaffirmed denominational title to the property of three other breakaway Methodist churches in Alabama, automatically knocked out a similar law in Mississippi-and Southern Presbyterians are hoping that it will apply to Georgia as well...
...U.C.L.A.'s Lew Alcindor is averaging only 28.3 points), and with any luck, Maravich should break the alltime college scoring record (1,209 points) set by Furman's Frank Selvy in 1954. Pete's lowest score was 30 points against Alabama; his highest was 58 against Mississippi State. One night last week against Georgia, he rattled off 42 points, including two last-second foul shots that gave L.S.U. a 79-76 victory. A few nights later, he dropped in 52 as L.S.U. trounced Tulane 100 to 91. Not that Pete is a ball hog. He is enough...
...everyone understands; what is meant by conspiracy is less obvious. 'Lately, this age-old crime has become one that district attorneys find themselves prosecuting in a variety of important cases. Conspiracy charges have helped convict such diverse defendants as Billie Sol Estes, the accused killers of the three Mississippi civil rights workers, and price-fixing General Electric executives...
...will present anti-Johnson forces with an awkward dilemma. They will want to stress their unity with the nation's Negroes. But the primary concern of the Alabama and Mississippi Negroes coming to Chicago will not be to end the war or to dump Johnson. They will support Johnson, they will be repeating again and again that they support him, and they will be doing everything in their power to get inside the convention hall in order to cast ballots...
...understand their gonadal urge to go up there and vote for Lyndon," sighs a key organizer of the Mississippi challenge. "But they don't give a damn about the war, and they love...