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...assist at landing a job after graduation. If a high school star is good enough to look forward to a pro career, McKay lets it drop that 27 former U.S.C. players-more graduates than from any other college-are now playing in the big league. While winnowing the yearly crop of 500 or more prospects down to a choice 25, McKay and his trusty computer are quick to spot and reject a possible malcontent. "The wheeze about building character is a joke," he says. "Most boys we get are 18. Their character has long since been built, usually...
Many of those who harvest the sugar crop in Louisiana live in shacks that were once used by slaves. The walls are so worn that sunlight filters through. With an annual wage of about $2,750, the average sugar-cane worker has five children, and their diet is so poor that by the age of twelve their bodies are like those of people 50 years...
...workers 10? an hour, but Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz ruled that the increase need not be paid until Jan. 10, 1972. "That is a big joke for Louisiana," says Sister Anne Catherine Bizalion of the Southern Mutual Help Association, "because by Jan. 10 there is no more work." The crop...
...their grasp of the larger affairs of state is that they spend so much of their two-year terms trying to get reelected. It can be a draining, humbling and sometimes compromising rite. The process does, however, keep Congressmen close to the people, and it produces a biennial crop of interesting political personalities. Herewith the pick of the 435 races now being contested...
...Spivak's indefatigable dedication to the program. "He wakes up with his motors racing," says Spivak's key aide, Associate Producer Betty Dukert. "When he takes a vacation," observes a friend, "it's likely to be a Governors' Conference, so he can scout the crop while he 'relaxes...