Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HEAT OF THE NIGHT. A Negro policeman from Philadelphia (Sidney Poitier) is falsely arrested for murder in a Mississippi backwater town by the local police chief (Rod Steiger), who eventually discovers that a good cop is a good cop, regardless of color...
Singer Bobbie Gentry, 23, may know the answer, but she isn't telling. Instead, the slim Mississippi farm girl is basking in the news that her Ode to Billie Joe, which she cut for Capitol Records on July 10, has passed the million-sales mark, and that her first LP album (including Billie Joe and eight other songs written and sung by her) has an initial run of 500,000 copies...
...syndicate moved on to work on Bonneville, Shasta and Grand Coulee dams and the piers for the San Francisco Bay Bridge. By the time World War II came and Kaiser went into shipbuilding, he could look back on nearly $400 million worth of projects including pipelines and Mississippi River levees, dams and bridges...
...defiance is most common in the South. North Carolina's Charles F. Car roll, state superintendent of public instruction, says flatly: "We've had these practices since the beginning-I don't know of any school that has ruled out prayers and Bible reading." Mississippi Superintendent of Education J. M. Tubb says: "The ruling hasn't really changed things much." Some Mississippi schools have students recite the Lord's Prayer, others let students propose their own. In the Greenville schools, a verse of Scripture is read over loudspeaker systems each...
...reappearance of Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams, a double feature not seen on Broadway in four seasons. Miller returns with The Price, a drama of two brothers battling over ancestral property. Williams is polishing a comedy about the impact of a flood on a family in the Mississippi Delta; his working title is Kingdom of Earth. Meanwhile, the prolific Edward Albee will appear for the fourth straight season with an Americanization of Giles Cooper's Lon don suburban comedy, Everything in the Garden...