Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...memoirs are not written chronologically. They shift backward and forward in time without warning. The whole "thing," as he calls his book, is a relief map of the Williams temperament. One particularly pertinent section concerns early traumas. The family move from Mississippi to St. Louis, when Tennessee was about eight years old, was devastating to the boy. In his mind, it became an expulsion from the Elysian fields to a dingy urban purgatory. He promptly contracted something diagnosed as diphtheria, which rendered him bedridden and turned his nature inward toward solitary fantasy. The resemblance to O'Neill...
...family heads who are on relief in the city were born outside New York State. The percentage of welfare mothers who were born outside other states with large manufacturing centers is 52.5% in Ohio, 63% in Illinois and 67.5% in California. The comparable percentages are 10% in Mississippi, 15% in Alabama, 18% in Louisiana. All this argues for national standards for welfare payments. But surely the states should not compete in unloading potential welfare clients on each other...
Although President Ford said the results showed that the G.O.P. is "alive and well," Connecticut's Republican Senator Lowell Weicker, no loyalist, said more pessimistically that the party had "taken it on the chops again." The G.O.P. lost both gubernatorial races (Kentucky and Mississippi) and fared badly in a number of mayoralty duels. Ford did have one solid reason to take heart: the voters turned down $5.87 billion of the $6.33 billion in bond proposals that were on ballots across the nation.. The White House interpreted the results as clear evidence that Americans were taking heed...
...Mississippi, where only 10% of the voters are Republicans and the G.O.P. has not won a gubernatorial contest since 1873, Democrat Cliff Finch, 48, came on with the glad hand and confident smile of a winner (TIME, Nov. 3). Although he earned $150,000 last year as a lawyer, Finch campaigned as the "workingman's candidate," toting around a lunch pail and spending one day each week laboring on such blue-collar jobs as driving bulldozers and repairing automobiles...
...crowding, but without much success. In 1970, for example, a federal judge in Louisiana ruled that conditions in a New Orleans prison constituted cruel and unusual punishment and ordered the convict population cut from 1,200 to 450; it is still almost double that. Federal courts in Alabama, Mississippi and Florida have acted similarly, with similar results. Convicts for whom there is no room in state prisons languish in overcrowded county jails. A group of county sheriffs in Georgia has threatened to go to federal court because the 700 prisonbound convicts in their jails are "a threat to their communities...