Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...easy case as a starter. He appeared as amicus curiae in Saunders v. Gray, an immensely complicated case in which Georgia's county unit voting system is challenged. That system which was overturned last year by a lower court, gives nearly eight times as much weight to rural votes as it does to urban votes. It hands control of the legislature to back-country princelings, often assures the election of wool-hat Governors, and, incidentally, minimizes the Negro vote, which is concentrated in the cities...
Sunflower County, home of U.S. Sen. James O. Eastland, is located in the northwest Mississippi Delta country--a sparsely settled rural area where Negroes outnumber white persons more than...
...Teacher-Parent Split. Such impassioned prose got Republican Rafferty, a former rural school superintendent and father of three, elected to his nonpartisan post last November in a landslide victory for which California's standpat educators had a big share of the blame. "There is a great difference between leaders of my profession and parents." says Rafferty. "My job is to keep this rift from growing larger...
...with fish and fishing. "What a gold mine," thought Gridley, "everything is here. The sixteenth-century Ius Fluviaticum bound luxuriously in vellum with metal clasps and that Mexican masterwork, Piscicultura in Agua Dulce. To say nothing of Tricks That Take Fish and all fifteen editions of British Rural Sports." On a lower shelf he noticed two copies of Fish I Have Known by Arthur H. Beavan, author of Birds I Have Known and Animals I Have Known. Pulling out the first edition, Gridley looked with warmth at the Fearing bookplate, which showed a green trout leaping from a green stream...
...have no quarrel with Robert M. Myers and his business success in running the Lapeer (Mich.) County Press [Dec. 21], but when you reprinted his uncalled-for remark that the "American rural weekly is valueless, lily-livered and moribund," you did thousands of aggressive community weekly publishers an injustice...