Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Direct contacts on Romney's behalf have been made with Republican leaders in New Hampshire, New York, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Mississippi. The Governor's aides have already made a straw count of convention delegates; they figure that they can now count on some 500 first-ballot votes, while Nixon probably controls around 550 (required for the nomination: 667). They have solicited New York Senator Jacob Javits to suggest a speechwriter. They have borrowed New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller's research files from his 1964 attempt to get the nomination...
...Baptist Preacher Dennis McDonald paid a sudden, proselytizing visit to Mrs. Laura Pendergrass, a member of the American Sunbathing Association. She was partly naked; he was wholly shocked. All of which earned Mrs. Pendergrass a $50 fine and a suspended sentence of 20 days in jail. Equally shocked, the Mississippi Supreme Court unanimously voided her conviction. Not only did the puritanical preacher ignore a "no trespassing" sign, bristled the court, but he also stayed to gawk for 45 minutes despite his self-proclaimed "purity of mind." Worse, said the court, indecent exposure is a Mississippi crime only when committed...
...made this movie. The dubious parallel between China 1926 and Viet Nam 1967 is hammered home again and again with ball-peen bluntness: "All these people want is to be left alone"-"How would you like it if the Chinese had a gunboat on the Mississippi?" Yet Director Wise takes care to make his lecture entertaining. He shrewdly decorates his picture with a bloody wonderful battle sequence, some splendid Taiwan shorescapes, a simperingly pretty leading lady (Candice Bergen), Not to overlook McQueen, a leading man who turns in the sharpest performance of his career. In a picture full of paper...
...through classical cultures, medieval times, the Renaissance, and returns to today. One recent morning began with a student-prepared exposition of Greek architecture, shown over closed-circuit television in five classrooms. After that, a social-studies class compared the quality of democracy in ancient Greece and in modern-day Mississippi; an art class took up classical sculpture; a philosophy class studied the thought of Socrates; an English class discussed Sophocles' Antigone. In each course students tried to determine how the Greeks expressed their attitudes toward ultimate values...
...five-to-four vote, the court up held a 142-year-old amendment to the Georgia constitution stipulating that no-majority gubernatorial elections be decided in the legislature. Similar provisions are now in effect in only two other states, Mississippi and Vermont, and no legislature has legally elected a governor since New Hampshire did so in 1913. Overruling a federal-districtcourt decision, the high court also rejected the view of dissenting Justice William O. Douglas that a legislature should not make the final choice "when the election has been entrusted to the people." Despite the fact that the Georgia assembly...