Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lesson, surely, is that Viet Nam has been and still is too much a President's war, first Johnson's and now Nixon's. A democracy does not fight at its best that way. Senator John Stennis of Mississippi, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, has proposed legislation that would not apply to Viet Nam but thereafter: permitting the President to send troops into battle without a declaration of war only to repel an attack against the U.S. or to protect Americans abroad. These troops would have to be withdrawn within 30 days unless Congress approved...
...bike. Just as highway building spurred the auto industry, construction of bikeways is expected to boost cycling. Already some 15,000 miles of bike paths are in use, including the 332-mile Wisconsin bikeway that stretches from the state's eastern edge at Lake Michigan across to the Mississippi River. San Francisco has opened the Golden Gate Bridge to cyclists. In campus towns like Champaign and Urbana, Ill., and Davis, Calif., where there are nearly as many bikes as people, there are separate bicycle lanes on city streets. City officials in Washington, D.C., are considering a proposal...
Hard Knocks. Illich skillfully picks holes in his own scheme. The drawbacks are vast. With total freedom to choose their education, people might prefer the bliss of ignorance or fall prey to "charlatans, demagogues, clowns, miracle workers and messiahs." Abolishing required school attendance, as Mississippi did after the Supreme Court's desegregation order, might encourage pinch-penny governments to reduce their spending on education. The poor would thus be abandoned completely to the school of hard knocks. More subtly, making teachers depend on student demand might do grave harm to universities that now support "impractical" scholarship...
White-Shirt Targets. Back in the courtroom, a defense psychiatrist said that Mississippi-born Johnson had been haunted by thoughts of death since the age of four. A sharecropper's son who grew up in the deepest poverty, Johnson had developed a persecution complex early in life, and though he was fearful of the plant (he lost a fingertip in a conveyor belt in 1969), he saw the $150-a-week job as the most important thing in his life...
...that, the jury of eight blacks and four whites argued so heatedly for four hours that they could often be clearly heard through the jury room's "soundproof" walls. "You weren't born in Mississippi. I was. You don't know what you're talking about," shouted one juror. "I've worked in a factory all my life, and I didn't kill anybody," said another. A third voice: "Did you see that cement room in the plant? Working there would have driven anyone crazy." A fourth: "The man needs help. You know...