Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inept Performance. One reason for Mills's decline is that Arkansas (along with Mississippi, Vermont and West Virginia) has declined in population during the 1950s, while the total U.S. population was soaring. In the redistricting that will follow the 1960 census, Arkansas stands to lose two of its six House seats. With the state legislature under his control. Governor Orval Faubus will have the power to redistrict Wilbur Mills right out of the House, so Mills has had to avoid offending Faubus. Bowing to Faubus, Mills has been conspicuously protective toward Arkansas Congressman Dale Alford, outspoken segregationist...
...history along with the ice cream and Cracker jack. To be located in The Bronx and shaped like the U.S., Freedomland will cram the kiddies full of "Little Old New York" (1750-1850 style), San Francisco at the time of the Barbary Coast (with earthquake), Florida bayous (with alligators), Mississippi stern-wheelers, New England whalers, and a Civil War battle (with neither side winning and no one offended). "Cape Canaveral" will even boast a man-carrying space ship. Said Manhattan's Board of Education President Charles Silver in splendid non sequitur, as the bulldozers prepared to break ground last...
TALLEST BUILDING west of Mississippi will be built by Humble Oil Co. in Houston. It will cost $32 million, rise 44 floors (604 ft.), eight floors higher than Dallas's Republic National Bank Building, now tallest...
...truckers, more than 10,000 railroadmen, several thousand seamen (on the Great Lakes. 300 broad-beamed ore carriers dropped anchor). This week at least another 30,000 nonsteel workers will be idled; next week the number will grow by far more than that. If the strike lasts 30 days, Mississippi's Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. will have to stop work on two atomic submarines...
...like. In the second collection, there is more blandness than bite, although Golden does return to the subject of segregation: "Free of charge, I offered the $64,000 people an idea to help get an additional ten million viewers in the South: Ask the questions they ask Negroes in Mississippi to qualify them as voters. They're interesting questions, like, How many bubbles in a pound of soap...