Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MISSISSIPPI U.S. SENATOR Eastland (D)* (winner) Walker (R) U.S. House (5) +1 Democrat...
...buffs gagged on concoctions as wet-and sometimes as muddy-as Old Man River. The patron who asked for a screwdriver was more apt to get a tool than a tipple. Thus, with more complaint than celebration, Prohibition receded from the last officially dry state in the Union. Since Mississippi's ban on liquor was dropped on July 1, counties with two-thirds of the state's population have voted...
...Hilles has been between 100 and 120 each night this week, about 20 per cent of capacity. I suggest that the RGA, a body organized "to further the best interests of the College community," and which spends a great deal of initiative on draft problems and clothing drives for Mississippi, do something immediately about a problem close at home. Michele Disario...
...solidly Democratic again. Segregationist Sen. John Stennis had attacked CDGM consistently since its inception in 1965, and even moderates who backed the Administration had complained that the project was controlled by excivil rights workers preaching "black power" and separatism. Apparently, part of the price of a Democratic Mississippi was CDGM's demise...
...project was the Child Development Group of Mississippi (CDGM), a community action program that operated Head Start centers throughout the state to prepare children -- mostly Negro -- for elementary school. The most novel feature of the project was that the children's parents played a large part in deciding its direction and methods. A non-government group, the Citizens Crusade Against Poverty, found that CDGM fostered more "meaningful" participation of adults and children than almost any other Head Start program...