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...things in this world stir Texans more than a brawl, whether between high school football teams, gamecocks, refinery workers or Democrats. Texas Democrats have more warring factions-from Big Oil to Boll Weevil to Prairie Populist-than just about any other political party west of Italy's Christian Democrats. Lone Star politicians relish their infighting so much that when State Representative Ben ("Jumbo") Atwell was asked a few years back if he was thinking of leaving the legislature, he responded, "What? And give up show...
...directions and order food at restaurants. Once day the 13 year-old went out shopping with his father and came back, with a football, baseball bat, frisbee; and pair of new sneakers--all the coordinates dinates for Americans, apparently. Soon, he always wanted to go outside to "heet boll...
Hudson Maxim, who suggested that for pest control, boll weevil males might be lured into traps with the scent of females of the species. Years were to pass before sex-lure pheromones were taken seriously by entomologists...
...freewheeling and free-spending race for his seat. Former Ambassador to Britain Anne Arm strong, White House Chief of Staff James Baker and former Governor William Clements, three obvious potential candidates, have said they will not run. The leading contender for the G.O.P. nomination is Congressman Phil Gramm, a boll weevil Democrat turned Republican who has all but made the formal announcement...
Jesse Jackson seconds that warning. He is scouring the South, trying to enroll at least 180% of the region's 2.6 million "" unregistered black voters in an effort to unseat "pro-Reagan Democratic Boll Weevils and Republican Reaganites," including Senators Jesse Helms of North Carolina and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina. Jackson has been openly flirting with the prospect of running for President and promotes the notion of a black candidacy as a way to maintain political drive. "We are going to the White House," Jackson says. "We are going from the guttermost to the uppermost." Running, he says...