Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This Sunday, reaching from Manhattan penthouses to Mississippi farms, from rec rooms and rectories to the White House and Whitey's Bar and Grill, Super Bowl VI will draw an estimated 62 million U.S. viewers. In addition, it will be aired live in Canada, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Panama, Korea, the Philippines and West Germany, and replayed by videotape in England, thus bringing closer the day when the football freak will be a worldwide phenomenon...
...They would give amnesty only to resisters, presumably on the premise that it is not as bad to avoid service as it is to desert once in. Desertion still sounds like unpardonable cowardice to most Americans. In a sense, this distinction may be discriminatory. An uneducated farm boy from Mississippi probably would not have had the knowledge to evade the draft; any college boy could pick it up in an hour. Or, on the other hand, perhaps the deserter did not oppose the war until he saw it firsthand. Should he therefore be penalized? If amnesty is granted, it should...
Deprived Minority. The act strengthened the iron-fisted and arrogant rule of Ulster's Protestant majority. In many ways, Northern Ireland resembled a Southern U.S. state, like Mississippi or Alabama, where a minority?in Ireland's case, of Catholics rather than blacks?was systematically deprived of social and political justice. Catholics were herded into grimy urban ghettos like Londonderry's Bogside or Belfast's dank Falls Road. A graduation certificate from a Catholic school was usually enough to disqualify a man from a good job: in Ulster, Catholic unemployment is as much as twice the province's average. The persuasive...
...round up 4,000 youngsters, who joined him in a 32-mile march. They raised $6,000 and won pledges of funds and equipment from the United Auto Workers, Hewlett-Packard and several pharmaceutical companies. Pollner's makeshift clinic won the support of the local white population in Mississippi and last summer attracted four registered nurses and some 30 student volunteers. They helped the doctor treat up to 50 patients a day. Now, Pollner observes: "The patients got better out of proportion to their treatment. They knew we cared...
Then in 1965, they renewed their friendship at the Napoleon House, a French Quarter bar. They discussed the imminent construction of an elevated Mississippi riverfront expressway, which would have been an aesthetic catastrophe for the graceful Vieux Carré. They launched a thorough investigation of the project and within two weeks produced a detailed report showing the expressway to be the result of shoddy planning. Their findings did not endear them to the Chamber of Commerce-nor, they were astonished to find, to many of their lifelong friends. They were quietly but firmly pushed out of what they refer...