Word: columbus
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...museum is a vital repository not just of artistic highlights like old Kovacs shows but of the broadcast record of major historical events. "Can you imagine having had television cameras on Columbus' ships landing in the New World?" asks Robert Batscha, the museum's enthusiastic president. "It boggles the mind. But 400 years from now people will be able to say, 'Here we are living on Jupiter, and we have this wonderful historic footage of men landing on the moon.' " TV's early programming was preserved only haphazardly, and much of the museum's job has been to locate "lost...
...perhaps no device more destructive to the notion of equality than the . . . quota," Rehnquist wrote in United Steelworkers and Kaiser Aluminum vs. Weber in 1979. He adamantly opposes court-ordered busing to remedy school segregation. The Constitution, he wrote in a dissent from a 1979 decision upholding busing in Columbus, does not require local school boards to "follow a policy of integration uber alles...
...during military service in Korea about ten years ago. Matix later married Patty Buchanich, and the couple became born-again Christians. In December 1983, just two months after Patty gave birth to a daughter, she and another woman were found stabbed to death at the cancer research lab in Columbus where they worked. The murders were never solved. Matix later told a religious publication that he was "beating the walls in desperation" after his wife's death...
Until last week, Helen Nicklaus, 78, had not revisited Augusta National since her son's first Masters as a Walker Cup amateur in 1959. That year her husband Charlie drove the family from Columbus, pausing at Ohio State to fetch Jack's girlfriend Barbara. Among many privileges the pharmacist accorded his son was access to a storied golf course, the local Scioto Country Club, where Bobby Jones won a U.S. Open in 1926. Jack developed his sense of history there, and his mother must have some sense of it too, because this year she suddenly decided to return...
Marr's students are fully aware of their affliction and have come to Landmark from all over the country. Founded in September, it is the first postsecondary school in America devoted exclusively to teaching dyslectics. Typical is Andy Thompson, 26, who quit Franklin University in Columbus after fumbling through his classes, then got fired as an electronics technician because, as his wife Jane explains, "they said he was too slow and inattentive." Trey Smith, another Landmark enlistee, had similar symptoms and his own deep frustrations. A superb pulling guard at his Dallas high school, Smith saw a raft of football...