Word: southerns
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North Carolina is the South's most liberal state, and Chapel Hill has long had an envied reputation as one of its most liberal towns. Home of the University of North Carolina, it was once called by Editor-Publisher Mark Ethridge "the capital of the Southern mind." Last week Chapel Hill chose Howard Nathaniel Lee, 34, a Negro, to be its next mayor-by 2,567 votes out of a record 4,734 cast. Lee is the eleventh black mayor in the South, but the first to be elected in a predominantly white Southern community. Said former Vice President...
...sought a compromise that would, in the words of President Charles Helou, allow Lebanon to "support this just struggle within our sovereignty and integrity"?in other words, without incurring Israel's wrath. Pushing the issue, commandos last week attacked a police post and a key road junction in southern Lebanon, and in the brief battles two Lebanese soldiers and seven commandos died. Al-Fatah Commander Arafat flew to Beirut to negotiate a truce. No matter what the outcome, Lebanon will almost certainly be the loser...
...happened, there was none. Washauer, undefeated in singles competition since the Southern trip, and the most underrated competitor on the team, combined extremely well with Kawakami, a reserve of first-string caliber, winning easily...
Among the most mysterious of all cancers is the one that afflicts the stomach. Why is it especially common in countries as far apart and as different as Japan, Finland and Chile? Why is it so rare in most of the U.S., and particularly in the Southern states-except among Negroes? Why, in all countries, is the disease associated with poverty...
...most of the Orient, they offer no clues to medical researchers in Finland, Chile or Costa Rica. But a combination of vitamin A deficiency with comparable molds or diet contaminants could conceivably be found in those places. In the U.S., vitamin A deficiency is known to be prevalent among Southern Negroes, and aflatoxins have been found in peanuts...