Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stumping the state from Biloxi to Neshoba County, Johnson urged ratification of the amendment in language the crowds could understand. "I would prefer," he said, "that our own registrars retain responsibility over qualifications and voting rather than see them swept aside and replaced by federal snoopers in every county of the state." Ratification of the amendment, he declared, would be "a vote of confidence in our lawmakers and will show the rest of the nation that Mississippians are reasonable people...
...enrollment in 45 schools is nonwhite. The city's governing public school committee has refused to admit that segregation exists in its schools. Its chairman, Mrs. Louise Day Hicks, declared last week that "racial imbalance in itself is not educationally harmful." Rather than bus kids, Mrs. Hicks would prefer to get along without state...
...nourishing cooking medium, is giving way to sealed tins of vegetable oil; kerosene-burning hurricane lanterns are supplanting the traditional Aladdin-like mud diva in peasant huts, and well-to-do farmers often buy a second lantern to hang outside as a sign of affluence. Though most villagers still prefer cooking fires of cow dung, some huts now boast $2 oil stoves. Rural electrification is also spreading, but slowly, with an estimated 80% of India's power requirements still supplied by animal and human effort. The current Five-Year Plan calls for less than 10% of India...
...Higher up the caste ladder, India faces a servant problem even more perplexing than that in the West (TIME, July 9). The punkah wallahs of the past are no longer willing to turn the fans in stifling offices; they have been replaced by air conditioning. Most lower-caste Indians prefer jobs as office boys or chauffeurs...
...salon door lies a fluffy pink doormat. Her terrace overlooks a river that winds through one of Europe's most romantic cities, the ancestral home of many of the Continent's most dashing and beautiful women. "My clients prefer the styles of Chanel and Givenchy," coos the grey-haired grande dame of haute couture. But the city is not Paris, the river not the Seine, and madame is not Coco. She is Klara Rothschild of Budapest, oracle of fashion throughout Communist Europe, recipient of the Order of Labor in the People's Republic of Hungary...