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Word: coxes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gentlemen," chirped a girlish voice, "start your engines!" At the third annual California 500 in Ontario, Calif., the racing cars roared, bystanders gawked and pit lizards-the racing scene's version of groupies-quivered with anticipation. Despite the forceful command from Tricia Nixon Cox, it rained so hard that the whole thing had to be postponed for two hours. Besides her husband Edward Cox, among the aficionados were Otis Chandler, Candice Bergen, Paul Newman (who has a hotrod engine hidden beneath his Volkswagen's middle-class bustle) and Barry Goldwater (who arrived and departed via helicopter). For Tricia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 18, 1972 | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

...refuge for the kids where adults take them seriously," says "Wig," as his students call him. Many are so excited by the magazine that they even work on weekends, interviewing their neighbors on such subjects as quilting, moonshining and faith healing. Says June Graduate Karen Cox: "I would have dropped out of school if it hadn't been for Wig and Foxfire. He made me want to learn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Spreading Foxfire | 8/14/1972 | See Source »

...long ago he and Karen Cox spent a week briefing visiting Indian, Chicano and black children and their teachers on problems as diverse as copyright forms and printing presses. Then they spoke about the serious purpose: "These old people have lived and learned the hard way; what you learn by living is the best education you can have," said Karen. Added Wig: "But there aren't many ways you can get a job if you yourself can't read and write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Spreading Foxfire | 8/14/1972 | See Source »

...canoeists have grown gradually more isolated from their smug idea of civilization. This episode of brutality and reprisal severs what few connections remain. Drew (Ronny Cox), the most rational of the four, wants to bring the murdered mountaineer downriver to the police. He believes that they will all be pardoned for justifiable homicide. The others doubt it, finally overrule him, and bury the body in the woods, which along with the rest of the area will be flooded for the dam project...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rites of Passage | 8/7/1972 | See Source »

...from Alaska's Poker Flat, White Sands, N. Mex., and East Quoddy, N.S. The moon's shadow raced across Canada at a speed around 2,000 m.p.h., so chasing it at anything below Mach 2 could not be very productive. But one group, headed by Dr. Arthur Cox of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, took off from Spokane in a jet transport, intercepted the shadow near Hudson Bay and raced it. At a speed of 565 m.p.h., they gained almost two minutes for their studies of the corona...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Next Year, the Sahara | 7/24/1972 | See Source »

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