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Bookish Football. Robert Anderson had an old-fashioned upbringing in a close-knit, pious, hard-working family in Johnson County. Texas, just south of Fort Worth. His father (who died fortnight ago at 81) was a storekeeper in the little town of Burleson, later took up farming on a 120-acre tract in Godley. Stricken at three with an attack of polio that left him with a limp, Bob grew up a bookish, unathletic lad, but he did his farm chores right along with the four other Anderson children. "He was serious-minded," his mother recalls. "From the time...
After graduation from a local junior college, Anderson taught Spanish, history and mathematics at the high school in Burleson for two years while saving money to go to law school. Assigned to coach the football team despite the fact that he had never played football, he bought a couple of books on the game, coached his boys to an undefeated, untied season...
...Foreign runners are traditionally superior in distance races, but victories by 19-year-old University of Oregon Freshman Dyrol Burleson at 1,500 meters (3:47.5),Air Force Lieut. Bill Dellinger at 5,000 meters (14:47.6), and little (5ft. 5½ in., 128 Ibs.) Max Truex at 10,000 meters (31:22.4) gave the U.S. high hopes for next year...
...which govern the arrangements for law enforcement for U.S. troops overseas. Waving off all remonstrances, Bow did experience at the last moment a tactical change of heart. He decided to save his amendment for the actual appropriation bill, where it would be more potent. But Texas Democrat Omar Burleson grabbed the issue, offered a "sense of Congress" amendment calling on the President to revise the status-of-forces agreements to give the U.S. exclusive jurisdiction over U.S. servicemen who commit offenses while on duty overseas. Loaded with homeside political dynamite, it was a tough bill for a Congressman to vote...
Early Years. Son of a Texas cotton and dairy farmer, Bob Anderson worked his way through two years of college, then taught high school in home-town Burleson (pop. 800), and coached an unbeaten football team on the side, until he could save enough to start himself through the University of Texas law school. During his final year of law school, Democrat Anderson campaigned for the state legislature on weekends, was elected the day he graduated (with the best scholastic record in the school's history...