Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Explosive Situation. The court's decision coincided with a new effort in the Senate by a most improbable pair of Democrats-Connecticut's liberal Abraham Ribicoff and Mississippi's conservative John Stennis-to require nationwide school integration. Ribicoffs amendment to an Administration bill appropriating $1.5 billion to help school districts desegregate would have required all U.S. schools in metropolitan areas to achieve a minimum racial ratio by 1985. This would be done by discarding city and suburban boundaries and requiring each school in the area to have at least half the percentage of black students that...
...Boston sported colorful curtains of kites over the Easter weekend. Kent State students were playing baseball last week on the green where their fatal confrontation with the National Guard took place nearly a year ago. Reprieved from the junk heap, the Delta Queen, last of the overnight, stern-wheel Mississippi riverboats, started a new "maiden" voyage to Cincinnati last week. All around the land Americans felt a sense of freshness and renewal. Perhaps nothing has changed, but spring makes it seem as though...
Bergreen has reorganized-and necessarily simplified-Twain in order that Huck's gradual recognition of the nigger Jim's humanity and, more than that, friendship provide a thematic structure. In counterpoint are arranged those episodes ashore in which Huck discovers the prevailing inhumanity of most other pre-Civil War, Mississippi Valley traditions. Perhaps because for many in the audience, suspense is precluded by knowledge of the book, while, for the rest, the bare precis that remains appears emotionally shallow, Huck's journey down the Mississippi lacks even the rudimentary sense of adventure that Tom Sawyer would demand of such...
...Governor Edgar Whitcomb, a World War II veteran, ordered all flags on state property flown at half-mast in protest against the verdict. Alabama's Governor George Wallace paid a twelve-minute call on the lieutenant en route to a pro-Calley rally that was also attended by Mississippi's Governor John Bell Williams and Georgia's Lieut. Governor Lester Maddox. Draft boards in Athens, Ga., and Huron County, Mich., resigned en masse...
...after Judge Ferguson's ruling, the Memphis Pros signed Johnny Neumann of Mississippi for $2,000,000. Neumann, a 6-ft. 6½-in. sophomore, was the leading college scorer this season with a 40.1 average. A.B.A. Commissioner Dolph said pointedly: "It's not a hardship case...