Word: mississippians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lean, silver-haired Mississippian, Diffrient, 55, has always disdained the merely stylish, devoting most of his professional life to accommodating what he calls the "human factor" in the tools and furnishings of our high-tech civilization. He started as a painter, but switched to industrial design while studying at the famed Cranbrook Academy of Art, near Detroit. During that time he apprenticed with Architect-Designer Eero Saarinen, making drawings and models for office chairs. He eventually won acclaim for his own chairs but is just as proud of the tractors, lift trucks and airplane interiors he helped create during...
Teddy Carll, an idealistic white Mississippian, was a hero of the civil rights marches in the '60s who nearly died when his car was run off the road by enraged rednecks. Did die, clinically, the legend has it; doctors brought him back from beyond the edge. Should have died, probably; his life since then has been a washout. This is not because of his injuries, which left a facial scar but did no other permanent damage. It is because, as Novelist Rosellen Brown sketches him, he is temperamentally unsuited to be anything but the star of a protest movement...
DIED. Turner Catledge, 82, newspaper reporter and editor who was managing editor and then executive editor of the New York Times from 1951 to 1968; of complications following a stroke; in New Orleans. A courtly Mississippian hired by the Times after impressing Herbert Hoover with his 1927 reporting on devastating Southern floods, Catledge was known for his scrupulous fairness. During his tenure, he increased the Times's national and foreign coverage and pressed for shortened sentences and sharpened stories. In his most debated decision, he approved publication of a report on a planned invasion of Cuba ten days before...
Twenty years ago this week, the campus of the University of Mississippi was shattered by riots protesting the admission of the first black student. TIME asked Mississippian Willie Morris, the author (North Toward Home, Terrains of the Heart) and former editor of Harper's magazine, to examine changes at Ole Miss since then...
...confronting the mob. Two people died, and scores were injured. It was the last battle of the Civil War, the last direct constitutional crisis between national and state authority. James Meredith, a black Air Force veteran, was enrolled as an Ole Miss student the next day. As a native Mississippian, I think of the lines of Yeats...