Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poll tax has benefited many poor whites--the most race-conscious of all Mississippians--as well as Negroes. In fact, the number of newly registered white voters equals the number of newly-registered Negroes. Of the 675,000 expected to vote at the Democratic primary today, less than 30 per cent would be Negroes even if every registered Negro in Mississippi showed up at the polls. And, as was true in the Georgia elections last year, Negro voting will not increase nearly as sharply as did registration, especially since the Freedom Democratic Party is urging Negroes in many counties...
Britons buy more sweets than tea. In fact, at an average 25 Ibs. each per year, they are the world's most dedicated candy eaters. Hence the excitement last week after a decree handed down at London's Queen's Bench Court. There, concluding 43 days of hearings on the question of continued fixed retail prices in the candy industry, a panel of bewigged judges decided that they should be unfixed. Britain's five major candymakers-George Bassett & Co. Ltd., Cadbury Brothers Ltd., J.S. Fry & Sons Ltd., John Mackintosh & Sons Ltd., and Rowntree & Co. Ltd.-were...
Harvard's time of 6:19, though not outstanding, was very good considering the conditions. During the race, a brisk 15-20 mile per hour head and cross-wind produced choppy water and difficult racing conditions...
...rent supplements plan barely won its first authorization in 1966 after severe cutbacks. It authorizes the Government to contract non-profit and co-operative local housing sponsors to pay the difference between 25 per cent of a poor person's income and his rent in standard housing. The sponsors then reserve part of their housing space for the subsidized tenants, and the Government pays the necessary subsidies on that space for periods of up to 40 years...
...years contract authority. A $5 million contract authorization, for example, really amounts to $5 million for 40 years, or a total of $200 million. The actual Government expenditure, however, would be less because its payments cease when the tenant can pay the full rent with 25 per cnt of his income...