Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Nixon tosses, turns. The pantheon of the past retreats. Now it is 1971. From his Oval Office, Nixon sends to the Senate the nomination of a Mississippi judge for the Supreme Court. Zap! Confirmed. He asks $10 billion for an expanded ABM system. Pow! Appropriated. He proposes cuts in school funds. Chop! Done. In one corner of his dream stands a forlorn J. William Fulbright, talking while no one listens. With other prickly Democratic Sena'e oligarchs, Fulbright has been toppled by a Republican capture of the Senate. In a far recess of the Senate chamber, a vestigial cluster...
...belongs to an organization that does. Still another would make it a federal crime to kill a policeman, fireman or judge if the object was to attack a "symbol of the Establishment." Among the key sponsors of the anti-terrorism bills are South Carolina Republican Strom Thurmond and Mississippi Democrat James Eastland...
...Jackson State and Kent State universities. Having reported first on the general tensions between students and society, the group has now turned to specific cases. The last two reports it has released leave no ground for charges of being "imprecise" or "equivocal." Instead, they come down hard on Mississippi policemen and strongly criticize the Ohio National Guard for their indiscriminate firing at students last spring...
...town of Cairo, Ill., might be a reminder that no one group holds a franchise on violence. In Cairo, a decaying, Southern-oriented town of 8,000 people at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, the nights have been punctuated for months by gunfire from blacks and whites alike. Property owned by both races has been fire-bombed in a long struggle over job discrimination...
...goal, in short, is to challenge high-risk freshmen to outreach themselves, and last week many of them seemed ready to try. Margaret Sias, a 27-year-old black mother of four with a diploma in "beauty culture" from a Mississippi high school, enrolled "because I'm tired of working in the five-and-dime. Regardless of color, we poor people want to get out of our rut and help others around us start moving." Said Nancy Vincenty, who had planned on being a clerk-typist before she heard of open admissions: "If you want to go to college...