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Grant needed all 18 holes before he could notch his one-up victory over Mike Aycock. Sherman, playing in the last position, gave the Crimson its most decisive win, defeating Mack Paul, 4 and 3. While Sherman was not overly impressive, he did take most of his holes with pars...
Last week a three-man federal court went further, issued contempt citations against Lieutenant Governor C. C. ("Taddy") Aycock and two other top state officials for refusing to sign salary checks owed to teachers at New Orleans' two integrated schools. (The city's other teachers have had no trouble getting their...
...South Carolina. "A vale of humility," the state was called, "between two mountains of conceit." In the Civil War it lost more soldiers than any other Confederate state; later it suffered its share of corrupt Reconstruction government until 1901. Heading the new leaders that year: "Education Governor" Charles B. Aycock, whose fiery crusade for schools got a new one built every day for ten years, gave education a permanent claim on a lion's share of state spending (76% of the 1959 budget...
Spreading to adults, Aycock's education drive produced the South's first great college extension service at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Its regular faculty members roamed far and wide, by World War I came near their dream of using "the whole state for a campus." Sample of their work: road-planning "institutes" at Chapel Hill (1914-19) kicked off the South's first big, well-planned highway system; statewide high school debates focused on the need for good school libraries, got them going; extension service teachers organized part-time refresher courses for country...
House Guest. In Newport News, Va., Bobby Aycock, 42, turned over to police by a married couple who came home and found him asleep in their bed, explained: "I guess I lost my way. I normally sleep about eight blocks farther uptown...