Word: southerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fallen Standard. McCarthy's object was to cast Humphrey as the heavy: a hawk on Viet Nam, a racist for not having agreed to the peremptory disac creditation of several Southern delegations, an autocrat when it came to seating arrangements and telephone allocations. Humphrey's men, in fact, bent over backward to be equitable...
...fire base "Buell." The U.S. ar tillerymen depressed their 105-mm. and 155-mm. tubes, firing pointblank "beehive" rounds of metal slivers that turned back the assault. In only one sector of the town were the Communists tem porarily successful, as they infiltrated almost two battalions into the southern fringes of Tay Ninh. In the ensuing battle, the allies were sorely tempted to use heavy weapons on dug-in Communist forces. Bomb-laden jets actually circled over the town at one point. But, in contrast to Tet and the May offensive, when whole blocks of cities and towns were knocked...
Paid to Go Away. Even the most liberal Northern and Western schools have far fewer than the 11% black students that would match the proportion of Negroes in the population. Many have had "quota" systems for Negroes and also Jews. Most Southern med schools accept only token admissions to stay within the law governing federal support funds. Thus the vast majority of the nation's Negro doctors have been trained in two century-old medical schools created especially for them: Howard University's in Washington, and Meharry in Nashville...
...accident or design, man seems de ermined to upset the delicate balance of nature in Florida. The water hyacinth, imported by a flower lover in 1884, has clogged canals all over the southern end of the peninsula. Clearing operations cost more than $1,000,000 annually. The 30-in. Bufo toad (Bufo marinus), introduced to the Miami area in the 1950s to eat insects, now feeds on the young of native toads, and hundreds of dogs have died after biting into the Bufo's poisonous neck sacks...
...last week 30% of Campbell's New Jersey tomatoes had spoiled in the field, and many were being plowed under. The company estimated that the ruin could reach 80% within the next two weeks. Campbell's 250 contract farmers in southern New Jersey, a group of whom has sued two unions for damage because of the strike, grow nearly 40% of the area's 21,000-acre crop. In California, where rotting tomatoes could result in a loss of well over $4,000,000 if the strike persists, farmers called on President Johnson to invoke the Taft...