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...determining whether the country will undergo an orderly transition, and whether enough whites will remain to help run the civil service, the ranches, the stores and industries. If this sequence of events occurs, Zimbabwe could become a showcase African state. If it does not, the situation could breed disaster not only for Zimbabwe's own citizens but for its neighbors as well...
...that wide receivers seem to be such a different breed? Perhaps it is because of their position in the game's structure. Even more than the quarterback, the wide receiver is aloof from the battles of the "trenches" and the sharp impacts that characterize the game. Instead, the wide receiver darts through the battling titans and if he captures the ball, their battles are rendered relatively meaningless...
More and more Yankee industries and individuals are moving to the deepest South, in no small part because air conditioning has altered the climate itself. Tyrannical heat, delirious summers, dog days that breed flies and sloth, squabbles and morbid introspection are gone with the vent...
Television's invasion into Southern homes has turned the flamboyant old stump speakers into an obsolete breed. Like many another oldtime Southern demagogue, Louisiana's Huey Long, who could have talked the alligators out of the bayous, used his stump-speaking abilities to become the hero of his state's poor people. So did Eugene Talmadge, an on-and-off Governor of Georgia for many years in the 1930s. His son, U.S. Senator Herman Talmadge, makes a then-and-now comparison: "In my father's day, you had big rallies at the county courthouse and, if you could afford...
...textiles, lumber, oil. They formed a closed clique that exercised great financial and political power. Today all that is changing. New business opportunities are cropping up as fast as, well, peanuts. There is a high demand for enterprise with a Southern accent, and to fill it, a brash new breed of entrepreneurs. Profiles of four...