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Here James Black settled before there was a town in 1824. Six years later he built the original bowie for [Colonel] James Bowie. He built many others until stricken blind. In 1870 he died in the home of Governor Dan Jones...
...that he would be more than happy if, as an alternative to Dixon-Yates, the city decided to build its own steam plant. He was told that Memphis could not finance such an operation. But as the emotional war against Dixon-Yates wore on, the idea of a Memphis-built plant began to seem more appealing...
Unhurt herself, Maria had just witnessed Portugal's grimmest air disaster. Shortly before she heard them roaring above her head, twelve U.S.-built Thunderjets of the Portuguese air force left the Ota air base to take part in an air force show to the north at Coimbra. None of them could see the fog-shrouded mountain on which Maria stood beneath them. As they hurtled forward in tight formation, the four top planes cleared the peaks without harm. The eight planes below them plowed head-on into the mountain, killing all eight pilots and reducing Portugal...
...dangerous underground game of Cold War espionage, the Communists have a built-in advantage: an estimated 10 million party members in over 60 different countries, all of them potential agents. The West has many more potential friends -the oppressed inside the Communist empire-but since most of them are inaccessible or terrorized by the police, Western strategists rely most heavily on professional intelligence outfits-the U.S.'s CIA, Britain's Military Intelligence, France's Deuxième Bureau, etc. Last week West Germany covertly confirmed what had long been widely suspected: Bonn, too, has its own apparatus...
...might have thought he had done enough for the illiterate mountain folk he had come to serve. On a desolate tract of land donated by Cassius Clay, he had established a whole new community at the foothills of the Cumberland Mountains in Kentucky. He had dug the well, built the nonsectarian church, opened the one-room schoolhouse in 1855. But now, he wrote later in the American Missionary, "we need a college here . . . an antislavery, anti-caste, anti-rum, antitobacco, anti-sectarian, pious school under Christian influence, a school that will furnish the best possible facilities for those with small...