Word: ark
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Virtually all of his life, Watson has been the peer to watch. The son of a Navy enlisted man, Watson went from high school at Pine Bluff, Ark., to Vanderbilt University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1960. He joined the Marines the same year. A slender man of 150 Ibs., Watson had remarkable stamina: He set two permanent obstacle-course records at the Quantico base, where he became an officer. He bucked for the Marines' most elite outfit, the First Force Reconnaissance company, and had to survive a list of training schools that were excruciating even...
...expected to exceed $20 million a year, for conservation. Opposition to any tax increase and fears that the earmarked funds may siphon off for conservation projects money that is needed elsewhere have aroused unexpected controversy about the proposal. "It may be too close to call," says Robert Van Ark of the Missouri Public Expenditures Survey. "At first I thought it was a shoo-in-it's like motherhood, being for the ducks. But now I think...
...doctor, now 73 and a vice-presidential candidate for the microscopic People's Party, met his bride last year while participating in one of her conferences on "the use and abuse of power." That weekend, says Spock, "we fell madly in love." For the wedding in Little Rock, Ark., the county clerk's office presented the couple with its standard gift: a bag containing mouthwash, deodorant and window-cleaning spray...
...South, but the ugly confrontations of the '50s and '60s, the bombings and Klan revivals, the school riots and statehouse harangues seem as remote as the Dred Scott decision. It is up North, in staid Boston, that the races clash and skirmish. Little Rock, Ark., scene of former Governor Orval Faubus' strident segregationist harangues, has thoroughly integrated its schools...
Herbert Williams, an eleventh-grade dropout from Little Rock, Ark., schools, went to Chicago in 1946 to seek his fortune. Over the next 28 years, he worked as a bus dispatcher, bus driver and truck driver. But he never felt comfortable living in Chicago. He resented the discrimination that for years barred him from North Side nightclubs. He found the people unfriendly and the pace too fast. Says he: "It is a big rat race, all hustle and bustle...