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...strapping (6 ft. 2 in., 200 Ibs.), likker-lovin' youth, York was a Saturday night hell-raiser around Tennessee's tiny Cumberland Mountains towns-and a phenomenal shot with his long-barreled rifle. Yet at the mere sight of a church-going girl, Gracie Williams, whom he wanted to marry, he put away his jug, joined the Possum Trot Church choir, turned piously religious. Above all, he took to heart the Sixth Commandment: THOU SHALT NOT KILL...
...CUMBERLAND, MD.: Lyndon and Daughter Lynda Bird, 20, headed for the office of the Maryland Department of Employment Security to visit with people who were lined up looking for work. There, Johnson spotted Joe Click, 49, a one-legged coal miner who has been unemployed for 13 months, rushed over to him and said: "We're here because we care...
Expanding its plant at Cumberland, Md., Pittsburgh Plate Glass is setting up a "float process" that will produce high-quality plate by floating molten glass on a pool of molten tin. Since the process requires no expensive grinders, buffers or polishers, the company will be able to double productive capacity by adding only 100 men to its current work force...
...Baptist is likely to be a Democrat (49 to 12)-but there are plenty of Methodists for both parties. With 102 Senators and Representatives, Methodists have passed Roman Catholics as the largest religious group in Congress for the first time since 1959. Congress also has a Schwenkfeldian, a Cumberland Presbyterian and a Seventh-Day Baptist -and six members who give no affiliation at all. The figures...
Most men would snap at an honorary degree from the University of the South, popularly known as Sewanee, which for 104 years has been an Episcopal-controlled* showpiece atop the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee. Yet last week Sewanee got a flat rebuff from its own Russian-born Eugene M. Kayden, professor emeritus of economics and translator of the poems of Boris Pasternak...