Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dana M. Cotton, secretary of the Graduate School of Education and Director of Placement, takes over today as acting dean of the Ed School during Dean Theodore Sizer's seven-month sabbatical...
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...
Holes in the Ceiling. As usual, Congress did not forget the farmers. The lawmakers approved a three-year price-support law for wool, wheat, feed grains and cotton that will cost taxpayers just about what farm support costs them now -approximately $3.8 billion annually. For the first time Congress placed a limit, $55,000, on the amount of subsidy that a farmer may receive per crop. But that ceiling affects only about 1,100 of the nation's 3,000,000 farmers -among them, Senator James O. Eastland, who collected $146,792 during 1969 for his cotton plantation...