Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group of Harvard students plans to present $1000 to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) next week to help cover that organization's $110,000 bond needed to appeal a Mississippi lawsuit...
...alcoholic Memphis parents by marrying into a respectable Nashville family and moving into their home. "Representative of the old social values" of Nashville, the parents can only resent Tolliver's inherited wealth, his laziness and above all his intrusion: "That might be how you did things on a Mississippi plantation, but not in Nashville." After he has found himself unsuited for a government job, Tolliver lapses into alcoholism together with his wife. Meanwhile his wife's family concentrates on protecting the embarassing couple "from the public gaze of Nashville." The Campbells move back to Memphis, where they finally consummate their...
...number of illegal aliens entering the U.S. in the future, the Administration is considering sanctions-presumably stiff fines-against employers who knowingly hire such immigrants. This approach is supported by the AFL-CIO, but has been bitterly resisted in Congress by farm-state representatives, notably Senator James Eastland of Mississippi, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, which would have to approve the bill...
...possession of small amounts of marijuana has now been decriminalized in nine states, ranging from Alaska to Maine to California to Mississippi--the most recent. And the climate of opinion suggests that the grass may be growing greener in the Bay State within the next few years, if only in the figurative sense. Massachusetts House Bill 4914 would reduce a marijuana possession charge to the status of an ordinary traffic fine; and for the first time in history, a decriminalization bill stands a good chance of being reported out favorably from the Joint Committee on the Judiciary sometime in late...
...gizmos have been widely criticized by lawmen as "licenses to speed." Says Mississippi Public Safety Commissioner James Finch: "My feeling about any device used to circumvent or break our speed laws is that it should be made illegal." Though several states have outlawed Fuzzbusters, the bans have been struck down as an unconstitutional limitation of the public's right to receive any electronic signal on the air. Legal or not, more than 500,000 of the detectors have been sold so far. and over 1 million may well be in use by the end of the year...