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...Delta Factor Sitting at My Desk One Summer Day in Louisiana in the 1950's Thinking About an Event in the Life of Helen Keller on Another Summer Day in Alabama in 1887," and you get the feeling that's how he does his best work, meditating in his Covington, Louisiana home on the state of languages and the world. If his antipathy toward the major centers of learning seems unscholarly and unprofessional, it's meant...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: One, Two, Many Discoveries | 7/18/1975 | See Source »

...that is now 60% white-and a showcase. "We want help," said Bostonian Barbara Steer, 17, and the Southern kids seemed eager to give it. "We want you to know we've learned a lot about judging anybody, black or white, as an individual," said Charlotte Student Dwight Covington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Lesson in the South | 11/4/1974 | See Source »

...truck swerved across the road, struck the car Lassiter had stopped, and killed the trooper as he tried to duck behind his patrol car. The pickup truck bounced off the patrol car and kept on going. The next day the truck's driver turned himself in to the Covington County sheriff. He admitted he had been out the night before visiting several bars, but was unable to remember going home or who drove the truck. He was later charged with manslaughter and leaving the scene of an accident. The truck turned out to be the same one involved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Lost Samaritan | 5/6/1974 | See Source »

...upheld a state law under which males are considered minors until age 21 and females only until 18. In Georgia, however, Trial Judge Charles A. Wofford struck down the state's laws on alimony because the requirement to pay applied to husbands only. Similarly, State Judge John S. Covington threw out the Louisiana prostitution statute because only the woman - and not her client - is subject to penalty. Said Covington: "The state must regulate the conduct of both of those who 'tango...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Decisions | 3/4/1974 | See Source »

...burden, and sent the Government precisely that amount. A woman left $17,761.19 to the Government in her will "for the partial construction of an airplane bomber." Many contributors like to remain anonymous. Last March, for instance, a $1,000 bill arrived at the IRS center in Covington, Ky., with a note that read simply: "Somewhere along the line I shortchanged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Giving to the Government | 12/10/1973 | See Source »

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