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...agriculture, mostly cotton. Now, observed Smitherman, still the mayor 20 years later, "there are 65 different sorts of manufacturing operations here." But Dallas County suffers a 15% unemployment rate; knowledgeable sources estimate the adult black unemployment rate at about 30%. The marchers formed two lines and moved toward the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Sixty state troopers were massed on the other side, blocking all four lanes of U.S. Highway 80. Sheriff Clark and his men, some on horses, waited nearby. Dale Ross, 10, watched as his father joined Clark's mounted possemen...
...found it so indispensable that she ironed it out when it was damp. Thackeray endured its "rather shabby pay," Coleridge tried in vain to join its staff, and Dickens endured its critical contempt. It accompanied the Light Brigade to the Valley of Death in the Crimea, and climbed with Edmund Hillary up Mount Everest. Although it proudly displays the royal coat of arms on its masthead, in an 1830 obituary it described the standard of conduct of King George IV as "little higher than that of animal indulgence," and when Queen Victoria wrote a letter answering its criticism, the editors...
They were not surprised when Conable, 62, decided last February to get out of Congress. Conable, who considers himself a conservative in the tradition of Edmund Burke, had once again leaned back and looked far. "It was the right time politically, personally and philosophically," he says. "The vitality of the system depends on new people and new ideas." He will dispense his thoughts as writer, scholar, member of several corporate boards and squire of 150 acres in Alexander, N.Y. (pop. 400). His 150-year-old house there is a replica of the Semple house in Colonial Williamsburg...
...several tons of methyl isocyanate blanketed the Indian community of 900,000 before anyone could escape. In the event of a similar Cambridge accident, however, a half kilogram of nerve gas emanating from ADL would have "some impact, but nowhere near the effect of the thing in India," says Edmund Crouch, a Harvard physicist who lent his risk-assessing skills to the local advisory group...
Last week's discussion centered on the differences between growing up Jewish and growing up Catholic, said Edmund D. Spevack '86, the organizer from the Catholic Center. Members discussed differences in education and emphasis on religion in their relative upbringings. The majority concluded that Jews know more about their religion than Catholics know about theirs, he added...