Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United States the majority of the flu cases have been reported in coastal or port areas--California had 25,000 cases by August 17, Houston, Dallas, and New York City have both reported what are still minor outbreaks, Louisiana and Mississippi have a total of 45,000. No cohesive attempt, however, has or can be made to distribute vaccine on a geographical basis, starting at the oceans and working inland...
...that TIME has not seen fit to print any account of the recent race incidents in Chicago, in which some 30 persons were injured? If these had occurred in Mississippi, TIME would have given its usual lengthy, distorted account...
...rich town of Bartlesville, Okla. (pop. 28,000) a new type of commercial well blew in last week. It was the most ambitious test to date of pay-in-the-parlor TV. From the Lyric Theater, a double feature (The Pajama Game and Mississippi Gambler) flashed from noon to midnight into 300 living rooms via coaxial cable, thus presumably avoiding FCC supervision...
...newspapers as the Norfolk Journal and Guide and New York's Amsterdam News came outspoken criticism of the N.A.A.C.P. leaders who had agreed to the weak bill. Said the Amsterdam News: "When we find the N.A.A.C.P.'s Secretary, Roy Wilkins, sleeping in the same political bed with [Mississippi's] Senator Eastland we be, gin to wonder about Mr. Wilkins...
...current issue of the Christian Century the Rev. Charles Granville Hamilton of Booneville Episcopal Mission in Mississippi urges Protestants to commemorate St. Bartholomew's Day with penitence for their own sins against brother Christians. "The state church of England," he suggests, "might ask forgiveness of the free churches for its persecution of them, and the state churches of Lutheran persuasion might confess how far they went astray in their suppression of Anabaptists. The Church of Scotland might contemplate its pressure against dissenting minorities, and the churches of South Africa their sins of the past towards others. New England Congregationalists...