Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meredith, the first black student at the University of Mississippi, said there had been no city or state action to implement Federal Judge W. Arthur Garrity's order for school integration...
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...made its American debut in Atlanta toward the end of last year. Since then, it has spread north and west. Georgia, Florida and the Carolinas have been hardest hit thus far, and health authorities reported a recent upsurge in flu cases in Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky and Tennessee. Some fear that the worst is yet to come. In New York City, health authorities believe that the number of cases could rise rapidly within the next few weeks...
Full Analysis. There was no lack of Democratic candidates for the committee. Many looked on it as a way to enhance their own reputations, bearing out some of the worst fears of conservatives like Democrat John C. Stennis of Mississippi, who lamented: "The bird is out of the cage and gone." Stennis and some other Senators fear that a careless investigation may further damage the morale of the intelligence agencies, expose secrets, and even endanger undercover agents. Said he: "This is not comparable to Watergate. An agency of this kind can be destroyed." But Mansfield promised that the committee would...
...same year that Michigan-born Catton won his Pulitzer Prize for A Stillness at Appomattox, Mississippi-born Novelist Shelby Foote began what was to have been a short, one-volume history of the war. Now, 20 years and 2,934 pages later, he has completed his history with this third volume. It is a pity that the Civil War fad seems to have abated; a historical narrative as rich in detail and purely exciting as Foote's deserves an audience of amateurs as well as professionals...