Word: southernism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tournament of Noses. The President-elect became an impassioned, if studiedly neutral fan inside Pasadena's huge stadium, despite the fact that Pat Nixon is a graduate of the Pacific Eight champion, Southern Cal. He leaped to his feet when Heisman Trophy Winner O. J. Simpson took off on his 80-yard touchdown run and summoned with rapid gestures his own version of instant replay for the benefit of former Oklahoma Football Coach Bud Wilkinson, who sat on Nixon's right. A reporter inquired if Nixon was attending his first Rose Bowl game...
...half time, to demonstrate his impartiality, Nixon walked from Ohio State's side of the field to a seat in the Southern Cal stands, pausing to have his picture snapped with Comedian Bob Hope. The result, as New York's Daily News observed the next morning, was a "tournament of noses...
...Actually, the game to which Nixon referred was played in 1933. When Pitt and Southern Cal met at the Rose Bowl in 1930, the score was 47-14 in favor of U.S.C...
...painfully, most of the 382 Negroes who have been elected to public offices in the South-ranging from mayor and state representative to constable and justice of the peace-have discovered that getting elected is only half the battle. Now, to help solve some of the problems facing Southern black officeholders, the Voter Education Project of the Southern Regional Council has set up five campus service centers to provide basic training.* These centers hold workshops for potential candidates on legal requirements for filing, costs and techniques of campaigning, and their official duties. They also provide advice to those already...
...several Southern states local officials are paid on the "fee" system, according to the number of cases they handle. In towns where there is more than one justice of the peace, white officers can choose which J.P. they will bring minor offenders to for hearings. If one J.P. is black and the other white, the Negro official is simply ignored. William Childs, a black justice of the peace in Tuskegee, Ala., is one victim of this system. Childs charges that the white J.P. in his district averages 300 to 400 traffic cases a month, while he gets no more than...