Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political ramifications of the U.S. involvement in Viet Nam are one thing; the war itself, as viewed from cockpits, rifle sights and radarscopes, is quite another. For the better part of a month, the Senate's Preparedness Subcommittee, under Mississippi's John Stennis, has been trying to assess the military effort through the testimony of the Pentagon's Joint Chiefs of Staff. Last week Air Force Chief J. P. McConnell had his saw-toothed say. It was predictably and powerfully in support of the air war in the North...
...outsegged" them; in Virginia's 1965 gubernatorial race, moderate Republican Linwood Holton lost to Democrat Mills Godwin, a hardline white supremacist who shifted his stance to court Negro votes. Last week the move toward moderation manifested itself for the first time in that bastion of the white South, Mississippi...
...physiotherapy, private-duty nursing, podiatry, hearing aids, chiropractic and even the services of naturopaths. When a plan was finally approved, the federal handout was scaled to the state's income level: 50% for New York and California for exam ple, 65% for Utah. (It would be 83% for Mississippi, if that recalcitrant state were to participate...
...Bird do some "nonpolitical" stumping, at which she is adept. The phrase "my husband" sprinkled her talks. Bands played, banners puffed, and swarming crowds were as giggly as if they were seeing a presidential parade. In a sense, they were. In Quincy, 111., she took a towboat down the Mississippi, preparing herself for a visit to Mark Twain's hometown of Hannibal, Mo., by rereading his work. On the boat she ate Mississippi catfish and sang along with Bing Crosby's old banjoist. In Hannibal, she was met by youngsters costumed as Tom Sawyer and Becky Thatcher, plus...
...latest, and critically most successful, picture is In the Heat of the Night, which presents Rod Stinger as a lonely Southern sheriff and Sidney Poitier as a homicide expert from up North. At the movie's start, Poi tier is passing through a small Mississippi town when Stinger's deputy mistakenly charges him with murder. Poi tier dramatically reveals his identity as a police officer (to a mixture of catcalls and enthusiastic screams from the audience). and eventually shows Steiger how to solve a murder...