Word: oles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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OXFORD, MISS.--Bullet holes still mar the tall Ionic columns in front of the Lyceum building at Ole Miss. The six white pillars have been repainted since the 1962 riot, but many of the scars are still plainly visible...
...Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. The publishers must be funnin'. Unwittingly, Berry Morgan, a 47-year-old Mississippi housewife, has produced the dadgum laughingest parody of magnolia-and-plantation fiction to come out of the South since Marse Robert surrendered at Appomattox. Her passel of lil ole psychopathic dimwits seems to have been spawned in a high-rent district of Tobacco Road. When Pappy Ingles, the hard-drinkin', ruttin' hero, tries to kill hisself by knocking his punkin haid against the marble top off'n a dresser, the humor turns as purplish black as a ripe...
Gibson Sales Head William C. Conley, who plans the trips, says that they have increased Gibson sales 300%, v. an industry rise of 60% since 1956. Conley is already planning another. "Next year," cries Conley, "we're all going to Acapulco!" Ole...
...Meredith into the university; in 1966 the law school's 368 students include nine Negroes-more than can be found at almost any non-Negro law school in the U.S. As classes convened last week, the 21-man faculty also included eight recent graduates of Yankee Yale. The Ole Miss Yalies-along with many another surprise-were brought there by the law school's dean, Joshua Morse III, 43, once a country lawyer in Poplarville, Miss. It was in 1963, after he was chosen by a faculty committee to head the Mississippi school, that Morse made the enterprising...
...Course. The new mood at Ole Miss has created a new willingness to listen to outside opinions. Bobby Kennedy spoke there last March on racial discrimination, drew an ovation from 4,500 students. Law students also brought in as speakers Mississippi N.A.A.C.P. Leader Charles Evers and Atlanta A.C.L.U. Official Charles Mor gan Jr. Last year eight law professors from Yale and seven from Harvard spent two weeks each on the campus for what students dubbed "the jet-set course." Mississippians were fascinated. "Even though I might not go with them politically," says Student Jack McCormick, "I thoroughly enjoyed Archibald...