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...time, more than one-fifth of the county's residents were slaves. Cotton was the mainstay of the economy, but this was not grand plantation country: small family parcels made slavery mostly pointless. North Carolina came late to the lost cause of secession. Jesse Helms claims no fallen captains...
...role was followed by a spectacular success at Manhattan's Phoenix Theater, when she played two utterly different characters on the same evening, a sexy secretary in Arthur Miller's one-act A Memory of Two Mondays, and a 170-lb. floozie in Tennessee Williams' 27 Wagons Full of Cotton. Playgoers were shocked to realize that they were seeing the same actress. "That sort of thing is done all the time," she says now, "but to do it on the same night was considered pretty impressive...
...they look sideways, their eyes begin to gyrate wildly and uncontrollably, first horizontally and then vertically. The prisoners struggle to stare straight forward, even cupping their hands against the sides of their heads, but they cannot help themselves. Francis Hughes, 25, the second striker to die, even constructed cotton gauze blinders around his eyes...
Isolated in their cells, the men devise ways of passing items across corridors by stripping threads from cotton towels and attaching a button. Then they swing the button under the door until it intersects with another thread and button from across the hall. Once the link-up is made, the inmates pass small objects to each other. Another way of transferring such items as cigarettes is to tie them to the end of a towel or a trouser leg, and then swing them from one window to the next...
Councilor Thomas Danehy, who voted present on the referendum's inclusion on the ballot, said. "If my neighbor was throwing halves of bricks at me. I'm not going to respond with Johnson's and Johnson's cotton balls...