Word: augusta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BLANEY PRIDGEN III North Augusta...
...Augusta...
Justice William Rehnquist, generally considered the most conservative member of the Supreme Court, has refused to stay busing orders in Nashville and Oklahoma City. His fellow Nixon appointee, Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr., did the same in a case from Augusta, Ga. Powell concluded that Augusta's busing was intended to end unlawful segregation, but did not necessarily seek to "achieve racial balance." Congress's injunction, he said, was specifically limited to racial-balance orders. A lower federal judge, Frank Wilson, did stay his own busing order in Chattanooga, Tenn., because he thought that Congress had meant...
...finished product, which took four months to write, was then marketed according to library sources. When publishers listed in Literary Marketplace failed to respond, Mrs. Durham consulted a directory of agents and got results from New York's Ann Elmo (chosen because the author loves Augusta Evans' venerable tearjerker, St. Elmo). Now that heady success has crowned all these efforts, Mrs. Durham can be found in the periodical room studying her competition in Publishers Weekly and Variety...
...methodical, Marilyn Durham seems rather beguilingly unaware of her book's freshness. She likes to call it a western gothic and says that the squaw Cat Dancing is "an Indian Rebecca - there to give the hero a Past." She loves reading trash, has never met an Augusta Evans fan who didn't become a soulmate...