Word: mississippis
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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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 The private Sidwell Friends School revealed that Mississippi's James O. Eastland had withdrawn his son and daughter.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...