Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over Aws. He keened into the heart of the Deep South, spoke at Jackson, Miss, in support of the Supreme Court's school-desegregation decision,* nonetheless won a standing ovation and the presidential blessings of Mississippi's Governor James Plemon Coleman. Kennedy rolled through the Midwest, where his Senate vote against rigid, 90%-of-parity farm supports had cost him the vice-presidential nomination, and came out with the support of Kansas' up-and-coming Democratic Governor George Docking. Says a top Oklahoma party strategist: "I have been moving around the state for the last couple...
...Catching the same sort of fever that heated up Rice and Notre Dame, a couple of underdogs engineered a couple of astonishing upsets. Already beaten out of the Ivy League title, Yale put on a spectacular aerial attack to trip Princeton, 20-13. Running out of a winged-T, Mississippi's Rebels showed the kind of power they were supposed to see in Tennessee's single wing and ran over the Volunteers, 14-7. Among the even-money choices, Ohio State squeaked past Iowa 17-13 and earned a trip to the Rose Bowl to play Oregon, conqueror...
...Waukegan, Ill. plant, soon moved to the managerial side as production executive, in 1951 became president (a post he will retain). Since the end of World War 11 the company has invested more than $200 million in expansion, next year will open new plants in Oregon, California, Texas and Mississippi, partly on the strength of a 2% rise in sales so far this year...
...rest of the book is a wife's-eye view of Upton Sinclair's career, written in a mincing, exclamation-pointed style that sustains the author's fond boast of having been the first student ever to gain a grade of 100 in English at the Mississippi State College for Women. Though Mary Sinclair loyally supports her husband's politics, there is a recurring refrain that goes something like: "I told Uppie not to do it, but he wouldn't listen and so he was arrested again." Sinclair fought John D. Rockefeller Jr. by picketing...
Hearts have been transplanted from one dog to another and have taken over the job of pumping the recipient animal's blood, reported Dr. Watts R. Webb, who worked on the project with Dr. Hector S. Howard at the University of Mississippi. The heart alone would be too difficult to move, said Dr. Webb, because of the many blood-vessel connections to the lungs. So his team tried transplanting the heart in combination with both lungs, and then with the left lung only...