Word: southerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Houston, only 30%. In one important program, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, New York State offers benefits of $71.75 per person, as compared with $8.50 in Mississippi. No one knows how much the wide welfare gap between North and South has contributed to the migration of poor Southern Negroes to big-city ghettos-but it must have been a factor...
...Israel could do. Caught between the Israelis and their own milA problem of militant populations, Arab leaders could be pushed to extremes to which they do not want to go. Lest he appear less militant than the guerrillas, Nasser has sent half of Egypt's 141st battalion to southern Jordan and last October Egyptian forces launched an artillery attack on Israel for no other apparent purpose than to silence sniping at home about his comparative lack of zeal against Israel...
...Southern Baptists believe strongly in the separation of church and state. Tr ditionally, they have refused to accept government funds for the support of their schools and hospitals. But costs are up, church revenues cannot keep up with them, and easily available fed eral loans and grants are beginning to look more attractive. At several annual state conventions this month, the Baptists decided that clear financial need sometimes should allow the bending of religious principle...
...special counsel for Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Kunstler sprang many a demonstrator from Southern jails. Later, he argued the celebrated case that declared de facto school segregation in Washington, B.C., unconstitutional. Though he won on the main point, Kunstler could not get the judge to agree to a more radical proposal. He asked that the court order the Government to force a merger of schools in Washington with those in the white suburbs of Maryland and Virginia...
...standards of TV, this sort of treatment works; Julia is currently ranked No. 6 in the Nielsen ratings. Analyzing those numbers, NBC statisticians report that Julia attracts an "upscale" audience -more urban, wealthier and better educated than the average. There are no indications of either a boycott by Southern whites or heavier tune-in among blacks. Predictably, though, Negro militants are outraged. And, to be sure, Julia is rarely confronted with the tough problems of being born black. She would not recognize a ghetto if she stumbled into it, and she is, in every respect save color, a figure...