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Providing these escapes has become a big business, and professional teams haven't been the only ones taking the field in search of more than one type of pay dirt. Big-time college football hauls in barrels of cash, much of it coming from network television. But while most observers bemoan the loss of true amateurism, Musberger defends major college football...
TIMES BEACH, Mo, --Workers in white plastic suits with black gas masks walked the streets of the small town yesterday looking for traces of deadly down in dirt that kids have played in for the post 10 years...
...shape the young Lyndon. He began running away from home while still a toddler. As a cousin puts it, "He wanted attention. He wanted to be somebody." After watching his father Sam, an incorruptible six-term state legislator, go broke trying to raise crops in the merciless hill-country dirt, Lyndon opened a propaganda campaign against him. Whenever the boy received a mild thrashing, he would holler loud enough to be heard across Johnson City. He seemed, as Caro puts it, "to be going out of his way to reinforce the impression of his father's brutality." Then...
...Caro details, Johnson had decided early on that a dirt-poor boy from Texas could be somebody. After winning a congressional seat of his own in 1937, he was certain that he could go all the way to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Yet for all that unbridled ambition, he proved a lackluster Representative. He made few speeches, introduced no legislation of note and would not fight for the passage of anyone else's. Stymied by the seniority system and generally despised by congressional colleagues, he hit upon a way to gain eminence: those cashstuffed envelopes. Caro says that Johnson took...
Students in dirt-poor Hancock County, Ga., have always had to make do with less. They have no art teachers, no speech therapists and no full-time physical education program in the elementary schools...