Word: southerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that's their business." Cousin Ernest Stone, owner of a service station, was more emphatic: "I think he should've done something about it, not let it get this far. He should've prevented it." With the characteristic concern for manners over morals that typifies many Southern attitudes, some Cherokee residents were more disturbed over Rusk's rejection of the role of the indignant father than the fact of the marriage. "In the eyes of Georgians," said a local newspaper publisher, "he did a bad thing when he walked down the aisle and gave her away...
...want any official statements-or unofficial ones for that matter-to be put out about the wedding. Next day he was meeting with visiting Latin American foreign ministers, imperturbably puffing his usual Lark. His daughter and new son-in-law were off on a long-weekend honeymoon in Southern California. Peggy was due back at Stanford and Guy at his job this week, both with a little history-making behind them...
...invariably ranked below the white soldier on a state-by-state basis. But the same test results can be used in another way to demonstrate that Negroes are smarter than whites. On the alpha tests, for instance, Negro soldiers from the Northern state of Ohio outscored whites from eleven Southern states. Beyond this, it could be inferred from the tests that Northern whites are superior to Southern whites, because they almost always did better...
...other Negro would have excited little interest - unless someone informed the passer-by that Ines Perez the 5-ft. 4-in., 149-lb. Mexican passer and Jerry Levias, the 5-ft. 10-in., 175-Ib. Negro receiver, were not junior high schoolers at all. They were members of the Southern Methodist University varsity. The reaction to that news might well have been utter disbelief...
...with S.M.U. on the A. & M. six, and only four seconds left, Levias ran a "curlin" pattern that he and Perez had practiced "about 1,000 iines" last summer. He sprinted into he end zone, jumped higher than two defenders, looked back-and there was he ball. Final score: Southern Methodist 20, Texas...