Word: mississippi
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...mold a great many lives and shape more than one man's share of history. Best known for initiating the Dump Johnson movement in 1967 a movement whose success stunned political leaders. Lowenstein was also one of the first to take on the evils of racial discrimination in Mississippi and organize students against the war in Vietnam. He was an outspoken opponent of the apartheid regime in South Africa, a lighter for individual rights in the Soviet Union, and a dedicated critic of what he termed the "institutional inertia" of Congress and the United Nations--a stance that earned...
...acquaintance put it, a "one man civil liberties committee." He was in Spain helping the organized opposition to Francisco Franco, he was in Southwest Africa investigating conditions, smuggling out anti-apartheid tape recordings, and gathering evidence of oppression to present to the U.N. he was in Mississippi, long before the civil rights movement became modish, organizing the Freedom Summer and Freedom Vote in 1964 to protest racial discrimination...
Famous Literary Typewriters. Hitler evidently did not use a typewriter, being a dictator, but other writers have found it indispensable. J.M. Synge and Henry James, to name two. Mark Twain, who typed the manuscript of either Tom Sawyer or Life on the Mississippi (the matter is murky), became the first author to hand in a typewritten book to his publisher. Of his Remington, Twain wrote: "It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around." Twain also began the practice of double-spacing manuscripts, thus providing room for editors ever since to fill the margins with the words "awkward...
...high school graduation. California, Ohio and Florida, among others, have raised standards for admission to public colleges and universities. In the District of Columbia, the 1984-85 school year is planned for 192 days instead of the present 180 and seven hours a day instead of six. The Mississippi legislature has increased school aid by $69 million and is considering adding 20 days to the school calendar. New York City instituted a new policy this winter requiring nightly homework assignments. Last week the city's board of education chose Anthony Alvarado as the schools' new chancellor, partly because...
...Grammy award-winning blues singer and guitarist whose vibrant Delta sound influenced a generation of rock musicians, including Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling Stones, who took their name from one of his songs; of cardiac arrest; in the Chicago suburb of Westmont. Born McKinley Morganfield, the son of a Mississippi sharecropper, Waters had a guttural baritone that soared in songs such as Hoochie Coochie Man and Got My Mojo Working...