Word: catawba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same spirit was in evidence when James B. Hunt Jr., 39, was sworn in as North Carolina's new Governor at a celebration that said a good deal about the South today. There were vestiges of the Old South: the official organizers served nothing stronger than nonalcoholic Catawba grape juice, though they tolerated hip flasks of bourbon and Scotch. But there were also elements of the New South: many of the majorettes in the inaugural parade were black, and at the ball, after some foot-stomping folk dances by the Grandfather Mountain Cloggers, the North Carolina Dance Theater performed...
Coming after two decades of severely strained U.S.-Egyptian relations, however, the new era of good will did have its bad moments. At a banquet given by Sadat at Washington's Anderson House, Ford raised his glass of sparkling Catawba juice and said, turning to Sadat, "To you, and the people you represent, the great people of the government of Israel." Amid gasps, Ford could only say lamely, "Egypt... excuse me." Later the two leaders reportedly laughed politely over the slip. Sadat's press secretary, Tahsin Bashir (see THE PRESS), cracked a barbed joke, "Perhaps President Ford...
Slow Judgment. The trial of John Hill (part Mohawk Indian) and Charley Joe Pernasilice (part Catawba) for murder and attempted murder was about to end, concluding a chapter of the American tragedy called Attica. But the end was slow in coming. It took three days of lengthy deliberations before Jury Forewoman Rosa Moore, one of two blacks on the panel, finally announced the verdict on Saturday night. Hill was found guilty of murder. Pernasilice was found guilty of second degree attempted assault. The men's lawyers promised to appeal...
...Earl Ruth, 59, Governor of American Samoa at $45,000 a year. A three-term Representative from North Carolina who calls himself a "country boy," Ruth has never been to Samoa. But he is sure his experience as dean of students at Catawba College in his home state will help him supervise the 28,000 Polynesians in his jurisdiction. He plans to be "firm but at the same time give the people all the leeway possible...
...Buckley comes by his minority party seat through inherited establishment tilting: his Catholic grandfather was once a sheep rancher in Baptist cattle-ranching country in Texas. The family fortune was eventually made in oil, and James Buckley has spent most of his business life with the family firm, the Catawba Corp., which provides expert help in oil and mineral exploration. A lawyer and vice president of the firm, he has traveled extensively on company business...