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...studied by kerosene. We had no electricity. There were no paved roads." His father worked as a tenant farmer, a butcher and laborer before the family moved to San Antonio when Connally was ten. There, the senior Connally operated a one-vehicle bus line from San Antonio to Corpus Christi...
...Edward H. Harte, 47, is a rich, urbane Texan who got "my big awakening" majoring in philosophy at Dartmouth. Today he is co-owner of the $27 million Harte-Hanks newspaper chain, publisher of the Corpus Christi Caller-Times (circ. 107,000) and the most liberal press tycoon in Texas. A key cause of that superlative is his son Chris, 22, a political science major at Stanford, who has taught Harte to "admire the gutsiness of this generation...
...public health officials mounted a massive emergency vaccination campaign to curb an outbreak of common measles. Nor is Washington the only city in the U.S. fighting a childhood disease that was generally believed to have been almost stamped out by the effective vaccines available since 1963. Cleveland, Chicago, Corpus Christi and Los Angeles, among others, have reported sharp increases in the number of measles cases. For the entire U.S., the rate of reported cases has soared 50% in one year...
...paperback age, the books themselves, passing through Lowdermilk's from one owner to another, acquired histories and characters of their own. Roaming among the shop's six miles of shelves, the browser might have come upon a 1702 edition of Cotton Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana, a signed first edition of John Brown's Body or a mint copy of Agricola's De Re Metallica signed by the translators, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hoover. In the musty chaos of books-memoirs, Shakespeare, Chinese history, the Arctic, the Civil War, Egypt-a visitor to Lowdermilk...
...such experiment at Manhattan's Corpus Christi parish, near Columbia, Father George Barry Ford introduced an offertory procession and had his congregation praying the Mass aloud in English 34 years...