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...black students at a newly desegregated Alabama high school in 1965, Delores Boyd gave a lot of thought to the civil rights movement and her place in it: "I had a sense that the law had a very significant role in whether the movement would fail or succeed." The daughter of a subsistence farmer whose eight children all went to college, she was no star at the University of Virginia Law School. "But I survived and I learned," says Boyd...
...Boyd did not shy away from tough cases. In one she helped white professors win a discrimination suit against predominantly black Alabama State University, ruffling some feathers in the black community. Boyd is fondest of civil liberties suits, but her heavy caseload also includes criminal, personal injury and domestic relations trial work. She is known as a hardworking, aggressive opponent in court. "She doesn't lose her cool, whether a case is going for or against her," says U.S. Appeals Court Judge Frank Johnson. As a result, Boyd, 33, is now taken very seriously indeed. "Word gets around," says...
Based on their performances in last weekend's Heptagonal meet. Crimson thinclads Jin Johnson Adam Dixon Steve Ezeji-Okoye Brad Bunney, Dwayne Jones Doug Boyd and Gus Udo made the All-Ivy men's track team Harvard placed Kare Wiley Jenny Stricker Grace deFries and Mariquita Patterson on the women's All-Ivy squad...
...long jump, followed by freshman Mike Okwu and Co-Captain Gus Udo Harvard's longtime jumping nemesis. Northeastern's Russ Hartman, finished fourth Udo also took first place in the triple jump with a leap of 50 feet, over four feet better than his performance last week. Doug Boyd cleared 6-ft. 10 1/4-in to win the high jump and junior Mark Henry took second in both the triple and the high jump...
Though suppliers and dealers will suffer this planting season, most agree that PIK is necessary to improve farmer income. As surpluses are reduced and prices rise, they feel, farmers will want to plant more next year, and will have the money to buy supplies. Says Boyd Bartlett, senior vice president for John Deere, the major equipment maker in Moline, Ill.: "PIK is going to help farmers, and what's good for them is good for us in the long run." Manufacturers are now looking for ways to convert billions of dollars' worth of PIK contracts into cash that...