Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Faisal shuns modern dress for the traditional long cotton lhawb that Arabs wear beneath an abayeh or robe. His meals are bland and include much .boiled rice because of a series of ulcer operations. The King routinely works a 16-hour day, which leaves him little time for a private life. For other Saudis, however, Faisal is slowly relaxing the stark imperatives of Islam. As the King has grown older, his reign by the standards of conservative desert Arabs has become surprisingly benevolent. Although members of the royal family are expected to behave at home, they and other well...
This time around, though, Paterno and Co. face, not the usual Top Ten power, but the Fighting Bears of Baylor University in the Cotton Bowl...
...translate enthusiasm into bowl bids, Paterno's Nittany Lions from Penn State (13 miles from the gas station) stalk inexorably the big-time football jungle that lesser Eastern mortals never dare to enter. Six times in seven years they've played in bowls, and they've dumped Texas (Cotton, 1972), thrashed LSU (Orange, 1974) and given Oklahoma (Sugar, 1973) the Sooners' biggest scare in years...
...last time Baylor won the South-west Conference--50 long years ago--was closer to Custer's last stand than to 1974. Clearly the shock team of the Year of Upsets, the Bruins upended not only Daddy Darrell Royal's seven-year hegemony in the Cotton Bowl--some thought it should be renamed the Horny Bowl, after his Texas Longhorns--but gave superpower Oklahoma its only good game of the season...
Nestled among the cotton and soybean fields of Mississippi's table-flat Bolivar County, the tiny (pop. 2,100) all black city of Mound Bayou has few stores, little in the way of employment, and even less for the diversion of its residents. But Mound Bayou does have one civic asset: the Delta Community Hospital and Health Center Inc., a black-run medical complex that provides the people of Bolivar and neighboring counties with first-rate health care regardless of their ability to pay. Mound Bayou may not have its prized institution much longer. The federal aid necessary...