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...COTTON BOWL PARADE AND FOOTBALL GAME (CBS, 1:45 p.m.-conclusion). Texas University v. Navy, broadcast from Dallas...
Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here. For more than two centuries, our foreparents labored in this country without wages; they made cotton "king," and they built the homes of their masters in the midst of brutal injustice and shameful humiliation?and yet out of a bottomless vitality, they continued to thrive and develop. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. We will...
...villain is the rich wall-to-wall carpeting, without which no new office is self-respecting. The deeper the pile, the worse the shock-particularly if the material has a high synthetic fiber content, which gives a carpet outstanding durability but equally outstanding shock qualities. Next comes wool, with cotton at the bottom of the shock list. A com pounding factor is the increasing prevalence of metal desks, typing tables and wall trimmings, which are brisk conductors of any static charges that anybody can scuff up. Driest days are the worst. When the humidity falls below 20%, executives view every...
Nineteenth Century Dallas prospered as both a western and a southern city. On the western edge of the cotton-rich East Texas "Black Belt", Dallas became the largest inland cotton market in the world. And while West Texas cattlemen transacted business in the stockyards of Ft. Worth, their wives travelled thirty miles East to the shops and culture of Dallas. By the first decades of the Twentieth Century, Dallas was undisputed mercantile and cultural capital of the Southwest. To Texans it was "where the East begins...
Campeche's settlers come from Mexico's , drought-stricken midsection-mostly from La Laguna, which once produced half of Mexico's cotton but is now a disaster area (TIME, March 15). Each will be moved by the government, supplied with food for a year, given materials for building a cement-block house, 40 acres of fertile land, plus-on a communal basis-five acres of permanently irrigated land and 56 acres of forest and grazing land. Each town will have a school and a health center with a fulltime doctor and two nurses. The government estimates...