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...intoxicating power in Southern state legislatures that he was totally unprepared to exercise responsibly (Negroes outnumbered whites in the South Carolina legislature in 1868). Easily led by the Northern white carpetbagger, the Negro lawmakers, like those in some young African nations today, indulged in an orgy of pork-barreling and political corruption. It was in direct reaction to such abuses that Southern whites, on regaining political control, enacted Jim Crow laws. The first, passed by the Tennessee legislature in 1881, imposed segregated seating in railroad cars. Other Southern states followed in other, more oppressive ways. By 1910, most...
Winding past Pork Chop Hill, Heartbreak Ridge, Old Baldy and other blood-drenched ground, the Military Demarcation Line runs for 151 miles across the waist of Korea. It was drawn at a cost of 1,820,000 casualties, including 33,629 U.S. dead and 103,284 wounded...
...education was valued in southern Missouri when he grew up on a farm with eight brothers and sisters. From a one-room school. Mallory and three brothers went on to the nearest high school ten miles away by renting a shabby room near by and living on pork and beans. While in high school, he taught grade school to pay his way. "Those were challenging days." he remembers. "Some of the children were older than I." When he at length became a much respected rural school superintendent. Mallory refused better-paying jobs with urban glamour. "I had an idea that...
...name of "balance," the new idea is to spread the research wealth to many campuses. Kerr fears academic pork barreling that might water down all research; he would create a new National Foundation for Higher Education to police federal grants and give more emphasis to such neglected areas as the creative arts...
...Unity. Despite his wealth, he shuns luxuries, has no hobbies, and usually reads himself to sleep over bank reports. So strict a Moslem is he that he prays toward Mecca five times a day, allows none of his employees to drink, smoke or eat pork in his presence. Unimpressed by pomp, he treats peddlers, peasants and princes alike. He knows almost every Arab ruler from Ben Bella to King Saud, royally says of Jordan's King Hussein: "He is like one of my sons, but I tell him when he is wrong...