Word: southernism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NCAA tournament to determine a national champion. Harvard beat Southern Connecticut 5-0 last Monday and now must beat Brown for the right to enter the quarterfinals. The playoffs are run on a single elimination basis with the winner of today's match facing the District 2 champion for a spot at the national finals in San Jose. California...
Haynswbrth's defeat is a major blow to Mitchell's prestige, since he recommended the southern judge to Nixon without fully investigating the cases that later led to charges of conflicts of interest...
...rate among G.I.s in Viet Nam is so high that Brigadier General David Thomas, the U.S. Army's top medic in the war zone, has suggested a drastic solution: Army-run brothels. Understandably dismayed by such a proposal ("Government-sponsored moral collapse"), the weekly California Southern Baptist countered, tongue in cheek, with an even farther-out suggestion. "Perhaps," the magazine editorialized, "we ought to send into battle zones only married men whose wives can accompany them to a relatively safe zone near the battle area, and the men could spend a week on the front line and a week...
...enough work for unskilled Americans. But with industry's chronic shortage of specialists, foreigners who have skills are in demand. The 1952 McCarran-Walter Act, which tied quotas to the national and racial elements already in the U.S., arbitrarily barred great numbers of blacks, Orientals and Southern Europeans, no matter what their skills. To right that inequity, and to satisfy the changing job needs of the economy, Congress in 1965 passed a law that in most cases admits immigrants on the basis of their skills or close relationship to U.S. citizens. For all its good intentions...
MENCKEN by Carl Bode. 452 pages. Southern Illinois University...