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...alienation made the President unnecessarily hesitant to direct his brother not to get entangled with the Libyans. According to family and friends, nothing hurt Billy more than what Jimmy did with the family's farm and peanut warehouse. Billy inherited a love for the soil from his father Earl, who used to tell him: "Someday you'll be in charge of things when you grow up. Jimmy's chosen the Navy, and you've chosen the land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Fraternal Rivals | 8/4/1980 | See Source »

...when Earl died in 1953, Billy was 16, too young to manage the business. Jimmy resigned from the Navy and came home to take over. The day after Billy graduated from high school, he joined the Marine Corps. He came home in 1959 to work as a truck driver for Jimmy. Frustrated and unhappy, Billy enrolled 18 months later in Atlanta's Emory University but dropped out after two quarters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Fraternal Rivals | 8/4/1980 | See Source »

Finally, the cello has been the means of livelihood for a number of Black musicians, including Leonard Jeter (1881-1970); Donald White (b. 1925), a long-time member of the Cleveland Symphony; and Earl Madison (b. 1945), who joined the Pittsburgh Symphony's cello section at 19. We shall doubtless hear more of Ronald Lipscomb, who like Marcus Thompson made a strong impression at the recent Washington competition...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Black String Musicians: Ascending the Scale | 8/1/1980 | See Source »

...house that former Chief Justice Earl Warren built was supposed to have been reduced to ruins. The current Supreme Court, which includes four Justices appointed by Richard Nixon and one named by Gerald Ford, was expected to undo many of the far-reaching precedents that Warren's liberal court fashioned between 1954 and 1969 on race, defendants' rights and other explosive issues. Yet as Chief Justice Warren Burger and his colleagues packed their summer bags last week, appraisers of their latest term agreed on one thing, if on little else: while some parts of the Warren Court legacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Nine Minds of Its Own | 7/21/1980 | See Source »

...Earl Warren couldn't have said it better; in the name of the First Amendment, Duke discloses, among other things that "white people face massive discrimination in employment opportunities, in scholarship opportunities in school, in promotions in industry, in college entrance admittance.... We prefer things that are white. We prefer the white race in terms of physical beauty, we prefer the white race in terms of our heritage and culture. We prefer our lifestyle to that of blacks and non-whites around the world...the discrimination whites are experiencing today is far more massive than what blacks experienced...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Three American Magazines | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

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