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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is how TIME correspondents last week rated the 48 states: Solid for Stevenson: The South is shrinking as a Democratic realm, but Adlai can depend on Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina and despite an independent ticket favoring Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd, South Carolina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: EISENHOWER LEADS STEVENSON | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

...England states-Maine and Vermont-had an average population loss of 1.2%; Arkansas lost 5.6%; Mississippi, 2.1%. The highest percentage gains: Alaska, 62.5% (to a total of 209,000); Nevada, 47.1% (235,000), Arizona, 34.3% (1,007,000). California had the largest number of new residents: 2,375,000 (total: 12,961,000); New York was second, with 1,191,000 (total: 16,021,000), Texas third, with 1,037,000 (total...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATISTICS: They Went That-a-way | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

...Still looking like the class of the South, undefeated Georgia Tech shredded a beefy but inexperienced Auburn line, shook its fleet backs loose on long scoring strikes, won going away, 28-7. Mississippi was knocked from the undefeated ranks by an underdog Tulane team, 10-3. North Carolina finally won its first game under its new coach, Jim Tatum, by defeating (34-6) Tatum's former team, Maryland -which has taken almost nothing but beatings since Tatum left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Midseason Form | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

...conventional position (on the back with legs flexed on the abdomen) for a woman in the second stage of labor is "simply a newfangled fad," said the University of Mississippi's Dr. Michael Newton. "Sitting, kneeling, squatting or other positions have been used for countless generations'... In discarding age-old positions, have we adopted a technique which is simply more convenient for the mother's attendants?" The primitive positions enable the woman to use her uterine contractions much more effectively, Dr. Newton believes. His prescription: an adjustable back rest on the labor table so that the mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Short Cuts | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

...Southerner was sticking by his racist guns. The private Sidwell Friends School revealed that Mississippi's James O. Eastland had withdrawn his son and daughter. Reason: one little Negro had been taken into kindergarten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Integration in Officialdom | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

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