Word: cottoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...garbage men had reason enough to rejoice. Their predominantly Negro union not only forced a form of recognition from the cotton capital; its 14-month pact with city hall also calls for some solid pocketbook gains, including grievance procedures, a system of mer it promotions and a 9% pay hike. Mayor Henry Loeb, who bitterly branded the strike illegal when it began ten weeks ago, even agreed to a dues checkoff; under a face-saving scheme, a credit union will collect the money for the sanitationmen's treasury...
Yates, currently head coach at Lawrence High School, retired from the Pats in 1965 after six seasons as an offensive tackle, center, and a place-kicking specialist. A graduate of Syracuse, he played in the 1959 Orange Bowl and the 1960 Cotton Bowl. As a senior, Yates was named to the Sporting News All-American team...
Memphis, in fact, was shipping more conjecture than cotton last week. Although Attorney General Ramsey Clark had theorized that the assassin acted alone, rather than as part of a conspiracy, someone had sent false radio reports to Memphis police headquarters in the minutes immediately after the shooting. The messages could have been designed to divert police attention from the killer's escape route...
...widely known as "the Voice of Reason in the South," embodies several of the disparate elements that make up this New South. His penetrating, almost colorless eyes and bristle gray hair suggest the Mountain South; the mellow courtesy and the slow, hypnotic cadence of the careful storyteller recall the Cotton South; his easy humor and fascination with historical minutiae bespeak the Southern Culture which has always been more a potential than a reality...
...Bache, 73, chairman and chief executive officer since 1945 of Bache & Co., Inc., world's second largest brokerage house (after Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith); of an apparent heart attack; in Manhattan. Bache started out in 1914 running trade messages for $1 a day, rose through the cotton and wheat pits to the top of his granduncle's 89-year-old brokerage house, which he expanded from 48 to 124 branches and turned into the top dealer in both commodities and mutual funds...