Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other occupation have blacks made such strides as in politics. The number of black mayors has increased in the past year from 82 to 108, including Los Angeles' Thomas Bradley, Atlanta's Maynard Jackson and Detroit's Coleman Young. In Mississippi, where any Negro who had the temerity to run for office a decade ago might have been a candidate for a lynching, there are some 200 black elected officials...
...managed to overcome my guilt feelings for having left poor, little Dr. M. all alone with his pen the minute I stepped on the airplane. I had never been west of the Mississippi. I thought San Francisco seemed like the promised land. Finally I would find out about the legendary west coast. The minute I got there the whole myth began to materialize. There were my sister and her husband, both deeply tanned, waiting in their MG. I climbed into the back, and we sped through South San Francisco into the city. Fortunately, it was dark, so I didn...
...oddball hero was Roger Guy English, 23, who claims to hold world marks for twisting, staying awake and kissing. His most serious attempt at record breaking will take place in August when he begins a 1,876-mile swim down the Mississippi River from Ford Dam, Minn., to New Orleans, which he has to do in fewer than 176 days...
...sharply limited if a no-fault plan is to work. Further, though insurers have tried hard to work out a system for peaceful coexistence of fault and no-fault systems in nearby states, some legal complexities remain. For example, if drivers from the fault states of Texas and Mississippi run into each other in New York, they can collect under that state's no-fault law. If they crash in New Jersey, they are not covered by that state's no-fault plan but must take each other to court...
...women have worshipped different heroes, anchored their beginnings to different battles and spun their folklore around a different war for independence. Their history began not in the spirit of 1976, but in the intransigence of the 1860s; not in Massachusetts Bay, but deep in the Delta of Mississippi or the Piedmont of South Carolina; not in the cradle of liberty, but in the curse of slavery. Whatever may have divided Southerners, the legend says, they shared these roots--along with the impenetrable bond of their supremely unAmerican experience: Defeat...