Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite some restraints instituted in recent years, chairmen on many committees still control the agenda and can bring up a bill at their own convenience. In some committees a chairman can refuse to bring up a bill altogether. Mississippi's James Eastland, 66, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and one of the most notorious racists in the upper body, has often ignored and sometimes killed civil rights bills by that method. Through similar control of procedures, Wilbur Mills, the Representative of a rural Arkansas constituency, has as much as or more power than the President in determining changes...
...SOUTH. Republicans picked up their only other seat from the Democrats in Tennessee, where Winfield Dunn defeated Democrat John J. Hooker Jr. partly as a beneficiary of the massive Nixon-Agnew assault on Democratic Senator Albert Gore. Dunn is a Memphis dentist and the son of a onetime Mississippi U.S. Representative. He pushed law-and-order; he opposed gun controls and promised to make Tennessee "unlivable for drug pushers...
...Farber, a local radio interviewer. Farber (who is Jewish) accused Mrs. Abzug (who is Jewish) of being anti-Israel. But Mrs. Abzug said she had long been active in Zionist causes and had underscored it by campaigning on the Lower East Side-in Yiddish. A lawyer who traveled to Mississippi to defend black clients in the mid-'50s, an organizer of Women Strike for Peace and an architect of the "Dump Johnson Movement," Mrs. Abzug was the darling of the city's ultraliberals. She sloganeered, "This woman's place is in the House . . . the House of Representatives...
Down the Sidelines. In Mississippi, the entire state is in the throes of "Archie fever." The town council of Drew (pop. 2,143) has erected highway signs proudly proclaiming: HOME OF ARCHIE MANNING OF THE OLE MISS REBELS. To accommodate national TV coverage for Archie, the state legislature spent $150,000 to improve the lighting in the Memorial Stadium in Jackson, while at the University of Mississippi's Hemingway Stadium they only half-jokingly call the new artificial turf the "Archie Manning Memorial Carpet." Beyond that, there are buttons (ARCHIE FOR HEISMAN TROPHY), bumper stickers (ARCHIE'S ARMY...
Between September 1967 and May 1970, the survey showed, the percentage of colleges experiencing protests rose from six to 14 per cent. In May, following the American invasion of Cambodia and killings of students in Ohio and Mississippi, demonstrations spread to 32 per cent of all U. S. colleges...