Word: mississippis
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Philip Alston Stone '62 is a native of Oxford, Mississippi and a godson of William Faulkner, which explains why No Place to Run concerns itself with derring-do and decadence in Dixie. The South is, of course, just about the best place in the world for an American writer to be born, and Stone has certainly wasted no time in cashing in his chips...
...Then, if you really want to pull out the stops, add some crafty politicians who exploit the race situation out of callous disregard for their constituents. No Place To Run has all this and more, being billed as a "tense, extraordinarily powerful novel of demagoguery and personal conflict in Mississippi...
Once again the South is threatening to bolt from the Democratic party. Five southern states, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Arkansas are planning to refuse to bind their Presidential electors to the national party ticket. This is obviously a first step in creating a Dixiecrat movement in the Southern states that stand firmly against the Supreme Court integration decree...
Died. Lester Willis ("Prez") Young, 49, whose light and easy tenor saxophone was among the coolest in the history of jazz, Mississippi-born alumnus of the Count Basie band; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Young became known as "The President" for his superiority in his field. His early influence helped...
...that he could not prevent its movement to the floor (TIME, March 16). Added to that was the momentum of the Senate's victory, planned by Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, who had even won over some Southern defectors (although not such diehards as Virginia's Harry Byrd, Mississippi's Jim Eastland, Arkansas' John McClellan and J. William Fulbright). House opposition was so weak, in short, that only a few recalcitrant Southerners took the trouble to harangue for the sake of the record. Swiftly the vote came to the floor-a rousing 323-89-and swiftly...