Word: mississippis
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CHARLES CLARK, 46. Also a Nixon appointee to the Fifth Circuit Court, in 1969, Clark likewise had no earlier experience on the bench. In 1962, as special assistant to the Mississippi attorney general, he successfully defended Governor Ross Barnett on contempt charges for forcibly resisting the admission of James Meredith to the University of Mississippi. Civil rights advocates consider him a moderate Southerner...
...Americans. The room was still as he read his ten-paragraph withdrawal statement beneath television lights. Half a dozen of Bayh's Democratic Senate colleagues were on hand -Hawaii's Daniel Inouye, Iowa's Harold Hughes, Minnesota's Walter Mondale, Missouri's Stuart Symington, Mississippi's John Stennis and Wisconsin's Gaylord Nelson. None of Bayh's erstwhile rivals for the presidential nomination appeared, however...
...brightest of PBS's established series, The Great American Dream Machine, has been wisely cut from 90 minutes to a more manageable one hour this year. But opening night-which aired some particularly imaginative segments, notably two charming cartoons and a droll sketch of a Mississippi crop duster-abruptly ended after 45 minutes in a foofaraw symptomatic of public TV's major ailment in the U.S. Since PBS and its producers get much of their financing from the Federal Government, and since this funding is not insulated from querulous annual scrutiny, the network quakes at the least cavil...
...Archie Manning of New Orleans, 6 ft. 3 in., 212 Ibs., was equally dangerous at Mississippi as a passer and runner. While it is almost axiomatic in the pros that a team cannot win a championship with a scrambling passer, Manning may yet prove the exception. Directing a green team (eight rookies in the starting lineup) against the experienced Los Angeles Rams, Manning kept the rugged Ram defense off guard with his fancy footwork and completed 16 passes, one for a touchdown. Then he closed the game in a style reminiscent of his Merriwellian history at Ole Miss: with...
...half a century, Southern Senators have cherished the filibuster as a last defense against civil rights legislation. Thus there was an air of anomaly on the Senate floor last week as Mississippi's John Stennis led a virtually solid front of Southerners to join Administration supporters in imposing cloture. The reason was that the issue was not race but the military. By the narrowest of two-thirds majorities, 61 to 30, the Senate shut off a filibuster by antiwar forces against the draft-extension bill. Having silenced debate, the Senate quickly passed the bill 55 to 30, ending...