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...Heflin, 55, is a strapping giant of a man, but he conspicuously avoids throwing his weight around. His background might well have produced a dyed-in-the-cot-ton supporter of the status quo instead of a reformer. Heflins have been in the state for six generations; the judge's late uncle, Cotton Tom Heflin, a populist turned black-baiting U.S. Senator (1920-31), was drummed out of the Democratic Party in 1928 for attacking Presidential Nominee Al Smith as "the Roman candidate." Young Howell went to Birmingham Southern College, served as a Marine officer in World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The South/law: Push But Not Shove | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

...Tahd of Cot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum: Nadia: What Price Perfection? | 8/23/1976 | See Source »

tahd of reading abht Cot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum: Nadia: What Price Perfection? | 8/23/1976 | See Source »

...where a Cot-tuh min-strayshen would expect to go from hee-uh; also the incumbent Prez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: A Glossary from Cot-tuh Country | 8/2/1976 | See Source »

feel: as in, Cot-tuh knocked the bark off a big feel of can-dits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: A Glossary from Cot-tuh Country | 8/2/1976 | See Source »

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