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...have two big weekends a year," said a Dallas businessman last week. "One is New Year's. The other is the TexasOklahoma game." Dallas hotel rooms had been reserved for months, airlines and railroads hauled capacity crowds, the Cotton Bowl itself had been sold out since August. The Chamber of Commerce candidly figures the fans, swarming into city nightclubs or out to the State Fair, leave at least $2,000,000 in the city's tills - -making football enthusiasts of every merchant in town. For Texans it was all a bust. A pair of fleetfooted Sooner halfbacks, Tommy...
...place in God's order. But today, city and Negro are both restless in the boom that is sweeping Georgia from its mountains and red-clay hills to its plains and coast. Cities outpace the struggling counties, the Negro vote leaps upward, cattle are becoming more valuable than cotton, industry outproduces the farmer, even Republicans are running candidates. Against this gathering avalanche Herman intends to maintain the Bible-shouting, "Anglo-Saxon," segregated status quo he has always enjoyed. He believes firmly that he can halt the pulsing pistons of political progress. He believes because, reared on politics...
...combination of Jackie, the Hindu judge and the sprawling California 29th congressional district that they are fighting for. The 2gth, undisputed preserve of G.O.P. Congressman John Phillips until he announced his retirement last November, spreads across 11,000 violently contrasting square miles. It includes the lush irrigated ranches (cotton, fancy vegetables, dates) of the Imperial, Coachella and Palo Verde valleys and Marslike desert mountains and flats. It in cludes the onetime citrus wonderland of Riverside County, now being turned into a thriving business area by the overflow of Los Angeles-bound migrants...
...buying from heirs" Somoza acquired coffee fincas and cattle ranches, parlayed them into a fortune estimated at $60 million-some $20 million more than Nicaragua's annual budget. He reputedly owned one-tenth of the country's farmland, plus interests in lumber, liquor, soap, cement, power, textiles, cotton-ginning, sugar-milling, air transport, merchant shipping, even a barbershop-an estimated 430 properties. "You'd do the same thing yourself if you were in my place," he used to explain. Nicaragua advanced a little; e.g., more than 600 miles of all-weather roads were built to connect...
Blessing in Abundance. Bitingly, he pointed to a decline in cotton, wheat, corn and rice prices since 1952, but noted that peanut prices have gone up slightly. "This administration has a fine record on peanuts," he laughed. But the farm price slide constitutes a "farm depression." From the past, Stevenson dragged out a familiar Democratic tactic: run against Herbert Hoover. The last time the Republicans succeeded in keeping "the stock market up and the farm market down," said Stevenson, "was the last time they were in office, with Hoover at the helm...