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Believing Whites. The effect was to swamp black candidates in many places. In the city of Jackson and Hinds County, 71,000 voters went to the polls and Black Lawyer Jack Young won just 13,900 votes. Basic political techniques -voter education, organizing a big turnout on election day-have not yet been mastered by the blacks. Some blacks, Young also believes, voted for his white opponent: "Black folks still believe what white folks say; they don't think they can believe in a black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Black Setback in Mississippi | 11/15/1971 | See Source »

...doubles matches were full of errors," Evans said. "They should be ironed out during winter practice or the spring season. I thought we would really swamp them, but we only held on by the skin of our teeth," Evans said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Netters Tie Wellesley, 4-4, In 'Instructional Practice Match' | 10/15/1971 | See Source »

...another, and both the Giants and Jets would surely veto any such effort. Though the Giants have a lease to play in Yankee Stadium through 1974, some city officials favored canceling it as soon as possible. Snorted Bronx Borough President Robert Abrams: "If they want to play in a swamp, let them play in a swamp right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Move to the Meadowlands | 9/6/1971 | See Source »

...safety record unprecedented in commercial aviation. But last week, in the inexplicable pattern that seems to govern such disasters, two airliners went down, one on each coast, killing a total of 78 persons. Twenty-eight of them died when an Allegheny Airlines twin jet crashed in a swamp near Connecticut's Tweed-New Haven Airport. Another 50 were killed in the collision of a Hughes Air West DC-9 and a Navy F-4 Phantom jet over California's San Gabriel Mountains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Fatal Sequence | 6/21/1971 | See Source »

Offshore are the pristine Golden Isles?Jekyll, St. Simon's and Sea Island, where rooms for $12 a day are still available in high season. Near by, the primordial stillness of the dark brown waters of the Okefenokee Swamp keeps the secrets of another eon. This is Georgia's black belt, where slaves worked cotton in the loamy soil and the plantation aristocracy held sway. Cotton is gone now, replaced by peanuts and the silent agriculture of Georgia pines oozing gum for turpentine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: New Day A'Coming in the South | 5/31/1971 | See Source »

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