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From its source on North Carolina's Black Mountain to the town of Canton, 22 miles away, the Pigeon River is a clean and lovely stream, lively with trout and tourists. By the time it leaves Canton (pop. 5,000), flowing toward and finally into Cocke County, Tenn., 50 miles...
Good Reasons. In setting out to make a visual sighting of a pulsar, Astronomers John Cocke, Michael Disney and Donald Taylor defied the beliefs of more experienced astronomers who were certain that the strange objects would be too small and distant to be seen through terrestrial telescopes. Undaunted, they pointed...
Samuel Turner looked upon Nat as an experiment to destroy the myth of the Negro's inferior intellect. He exhorted Nat and gradually gave him responsibilities. Styron bases Samuel Turner on John Hartwell Cocke, who was a leading spokesman for emancipation in the Virginia legislautre of the early 1880's...
Married. Erie Cocke Jr., 34, past (1950-51) national commander of the American Legion, currently assistant to the president of Delta Air Lines; and Madelyn Grotnes, 31, former (until three months before her wedding) private secretary to Senator Joe McCarthy; in Chicago.
Tongue-Lashing. During the trial, Judge Cocke had been so critical of Dixon's failure to check more carefully the police records he printed that both sheriff and district attorney confidently expected a conviction. What they heard instead was a scathing tongue-lashing for their own failure to enforce...