Word: southernism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been 14 years since the Supreme Court ruled Southern school segregation unconstitutional, 13 years since the court ordered desegregation "with all deliberate speed," and four years since it ruled that "the time for mere 'deliberate speed' has run out." Last week, on behalf of an impatient and unanimous court, Justice William Brennan wrote: "The burden on a school board today is to come forward with a plan that promises realistically to work, and promises realistically to work...
Bluntly, Brennan spelled out the court's dissatisfaction with the so-called "freedom of choice" plans that have been adopted in more than 1,300 of Southern school districts. The trouble with the plans is that they simply do not work. In New Kent County, Va., and Gould, Ark.-the two areas specifically examined by the court-schools remain largely segregated because the responsibility for action has been placed on the Negro students: they must take it upon themselves to request a transfer. And all too few of them make the effort. But they should not have to, said...
...comparative study of 200 lung-cancer patients and 200 victims of other chest diseases, made by the late Dr.David M. Kissen of Glasgow's Southern General Hospital, revealed that the cancer patients were less able to release their emotions. What's more, researchers reported last week, emotional inhibition parallels high per-capita cancer incidence among many peoples...
...bureau, suggests that the answer is a fatal euphoria. What Kennedy overlooked was the fact that Congress had no intention of carrying out his campaign promises unless forced to by public pressure. To be sure, Kennedy soon won a crucial fight for what realists call "the third house" -the Southern-dominated House Rules Committee, which can stop almost any bill from reaching a floor vote. But as Author Wicker tells it, Kennedy thus learned too well that Government is a matter of "men, not measures." Seeking more support, he wooed Southern segregationists, and lost Northern-liberal respect in the process...
...using "cheap" airpower to bomb the North. But the result, Wicker argues, was that Johnson simply created in the South big airbases that invited guerrilla attack and required all the more U.S. troops for their protection. Not only did the Northern bombing prove relatively ineffective against the Southern enemy; it was also difficult to halt, for fear of handing Hanoi a psychological victory...