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...Dixon Courts...
From the beginning of his campaign, Jesse Jackson had counted on the primaries below the Mason-Dixon line to show that he could entice historically stay-at-home blacks to the voting booth. Last week in Alabama, Florida and Georgia, Jackson did just that. "Blacks just ran to the polls," said Tyrone Brooks, Jackson's campaign director in Georgia...
They just didn't know what to expect from Harvard basketball at season's start. "We had a lot of questions at the start," Carrabino says. "Like how I would play, how the freshmen would play and who would replace Calvin Dixon...
Carrabino would play like the Ivy Player of the Year he became, freshmen" would become, "the freshman" and he would play just fine, thank you and Pat Smith would gladly and, at times, superbly replace Calvin Dixon...
Dallek, a UCLA professor, begins by pausing briefly, but crucially, to examine Reagan's autobiography Where is the Rest of Me?, and a particular episode in which Reagan, a young schoolboy in Dixon, Illinois, remembers seeing his father drunk on the back door-step. The example is illustrative of his general approach; Dallek retrieves from this incident the basic Reagan ethic of self-reliance that Dallek asserts pervades Reagan's policies as president. Moving onward, Dallek tries to show a panoply of instances in which Reagan actions reflect deep-seated personal values. He wants to find the bases of Reagan...