Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fidel, Himself." The U.S. link to the Cuba furor was the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, chaired by Mississippi's Senator James Eastland. Eastland's witness was Major Pedro Luis Diaz Lanz, former head of Castro's air force, who says he was fired for fighting Communist influence in the armed forces (TIME, July 13). Cuba's No. 1 Communist, Díaz Lanz charged, "is Fidel himself." He added that on a trip to Venezuela, he saw Castro go into a hotel bathroom for a private, two-hour talk with Venezuelan Communist Boss Gustavo Machado. Castro...
...Horse Soldiers (Mirisch; United Artists). "Thundah in thuh outhouse!" the startled Mississippi belle (Constance Towers) exclaims. "Them's Yankees!" Them, to be more precise, is the 1st Brigade, U.S. Cavalry. Colonel John Wayne commanding, and they are plunging along toward Newton Station in Director John Ford's $5,000,000 screen version of Grierson's Raid through the depths of Confederate territory during Grant's advance on Vicksburg. Summoning all her Southern charm, the proud beauty invites Wayne and his officers to dinner. Making the most of her downfall neckline, she leans low over the harried...
...Dickinson of the play, has been dead eighteen years by the time the play takes place. This is December 31, 1899. "The last day of Alison's century," as one of the characters helpfully points out. The Stanhope family is leaving its old home on the banks of the Mississippi for a new one in the city. A reporter from Chicago comes down to see the room in which Alison worked, and off we go. Old Aunt Agatha, Alison's constant companion, now grown senile, tries unsuccessfully to burn down the house. Elsa Stanhope who, years before, ran off with...
...direction. Later investigation revealed that the Cromwell Current is a tremendous thing. It is 250 miles wide, at least 3,500 miles long. Three hundred feet below the surface, its high-speed core flows eastward at up to 3 knots, carrying 1,000 times as much water as the Mississippi...
...Jackson, Governor Coleman acknowledged that he had received an FBI report, refused to reveal its contents. There would, he said, be no prosecution for at least six months. That was because Mississippi courts have already ruled that it is reversible error to call a special grand jury to consider only one case. The ruling was convenient for Coleman. Since he is himself running forthe state legislature and backing a hand-picked candidate to succeed him as Governor, it could be mighty embarrassing to have the Parker case come up before the August primary...