Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...court orders; almost half are geriatrics cases or mental retardees who receive only custodial care. The rest get scant medical treatment. Bryce is so backward that it does not even qualify for federal Medicare funds. The state spends only $6.80 a day on each patient, the second lowest (after Mississippi) such rate in the nation...
Truffaut, however much we may love him, demonstrates the impossibility of our affection once and for all in his new film. He dashes not only the small hopes left to us by the other Doinel pictures, but also those allowed by Jules and Jim, Shoot the Piano Player and Mississippi Mermaid. We should have known it was coming, for our adoration of this director has always been based on our sense of his understanding that love is not sweet, simple and easy no matter what its appearances. Embracing in a lobby or a park or a church will solve nothing...
Higgs - who represented James Meredith in his battle to gain admittance to the University of Mississippi - has been the legal counsel to Tijerina's Alianza Federal De Pueblos Libres since 1968. Tijerina - perhaps one of the most controversial Chicano leaders - has claimed that 100,000,000 acres of New Mexico's common lands belong to Indo-Hispano people of the Southwest...
Early last week a spate of more than 50 tornadoes churned furiously through portions of Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee, uprooting and smashing everything in their path, leaving behind more than 100 dead, thousands homeless and property damage in the tens of millions of dollars. One of the hardest hit was the Mississippi Delta town of Inverness (pop. 1,119), which suffered 90% destruction in its business area, the loss of nearly three-fourths of its residential dwellings and 18 deaths. TIME Correspondent Rich Rein toured stricken Inverness. Here is his report...
...real tragedy is that no Senator wants to go anywhere but Harvard or California. But the kids who go to school between the Mississippi and the Rockies are the ones who really need some big name to come and recognize the fact that they're alive and kicking," Draper said...