Word: earle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PROMISE so long coming, spoken at last. Within the shadow of monuments to a different promise?the statues of Confederate soldiers, of the political captains of a demagogic past?James Earl Carter Jr., 76th Governor of Georgia, delivered his inaugural address. It heralded the end of that final Southern extravagance, the classic rhetoric of "never." The reality of 17 years of court decisions, demonstrations, black-voter registration and legislation was clearly seen across the South as Carter and other moderate Governors took office this year, giving the region new political voices, new images, new goals...
...James Earl Carter Sr. was in business when his first son was born on Oct. 1, 1924. He managed a grocery store, owned the town's icehouse and dry-cleaning plant and later sold farm supplies. Jimmy's uncle was a mule trader, and occasional trips to Atlanta with him to buy mules to work the fields were young Carter's only exposure to nonagrarian society. At Plains High School he played basketball and went to "prom parties," those heavily chaperoned Friday night socials where the boys signed the girls' cards for a five-minute promenade on the front porch...
...YEAR AGO this month, members of the Mississippi State Highway Patrol fired into a women's dormitory at Jackson State College, and murdered Philip Gibbs and James Earl Green and wounded nine other students. The incident at Jackson, coming within two weeks of the four murders at Kent State, were immediately paralleled to the Kent killings, and used as a re-enforcement of the "Student as Nigger" metaphor. However, there was a large and important difference between what happened at Jackson and what happened at Kent, and an even larger difference in what has been the reaction...
...Bill Tuttle 2. Roger Craig 3. Jack Fisher 4. Frank O'Doul '29, 398 5. Manny Sanguillen, 325 6. Camilo pascual 7. Manny Mota 8. Eddie Matthews 9. Fred Gladdings-63 10. Johnny Podres 11. Earl Torgeson 12. Tracy Stallard 13. 1-0 14. Fritz Peterson 15. Earl Battey 16. Al Smith 17. Jerry Adair 18. Albie Pearson 19. Ralph Terry 20. Jimmy Piersall 21. Richie Ashburn 22. the ol' Smokehouse 23. Los Angeles Dodgers, 1965 24. Jim Gilliam, Maury Wills, Jim Lefebvre, and Wes Parker 25. Bob Friend-Pirates 26. Crosley Field, Cincinnati, May 24, 1934 27. Curt Simmons...
...Daily's attorneys include Anthony Amesterdam-a noted civil liberties lawyer who recently defended Earl Caldwell, a black reporter for the New York Times who successfully contested an attempt by a California Grand Jury to force him to hand over his notes on the Black Panther Party-and Jerome Falk, a San Fransisco lawyer who has handled the legal defense for the embattled California Rural Legal Assistance program...