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Thus he rooted for Notre Dame against the University of Texas in the Cotton Bowl on New Year's Day because Notre Dame President Theodore Hesburgh stands against "racism and repression." And the game was played in Dallas, where "football is the plaything of oilmen and their right-wing political friends" and where John Kennedy was shot. In the Rose Bowl at Pasadena, Wechsler was pulling for Stanford against Ohio State because Stanford Quarterback Jim Plunkett is the son of blind parents, his mother a Chicano, and Ohio State Coach Woody Hayes is a middle-American "martinet...
...kitchen; in Las Vegas (his wife found his body in their home about a week after his death). "Ever since I was born, I've been fighting for my life," Liston used to say. Much of it was out of the ring. Son of an Arkansas cotton farmer, Liston in his late teens was serving a five-year sentence for a restaurant holdup when a prison chaplain tried to channel his ferocious aggressions into boxing. Under the guidance of the mob, he won all but one of his first 34 matches and in 1962 took the heavyweight title from...
ARKANSAS. Whether in 110° F. summer heat or winter cold, 16,000 acres of rich southeastern Arkansas land will always be tilled. This is the Cummins Prison Farm, where 200 convicts stoop in the vast cotton fields twelve hours a day, 51 days a week ? for zero pay. Such are the wages of sin in what may be the nation's most Calvinistic state...
...know that reasonable quotas can work in our industry. The long-term cotton textile arrangement has proved this sufficiently in the past and has recently been extended through 1973. It belies the fact that quotas cause increases in prices to consumers, because the price of cotton goods has gone up only about 1% over the 1959 base, which is one of the best performances in all of the manufacturing industry...
...pollution localized in cities where the most people are: radioactive fallout, pesticide residue and fertilizer run-off all pollute the rural environment. The root problem, Commoner said, lies in consumption patterns. Bowing to economic incentives, man now prefers synthetic materials like rayon and plastic to natural ones like cotton and wood. In fact, the number of new products-each of which needs greater inputs of energy and technology -multiplies every year...