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...while Buffalo was fighting its way to the Super Bowl, Dallas was losing and stockpiling blue-chip draft choices like running back Emmitt Smith, quarterback Troy Aikman and wide receiver Michael Irvin. All of which proves the axiom that losing in the Super Bowl is actually worse than going 1-15. If you finish last, you at least get to pick first in the draft. Defeat in the Super Bowl, on the other hand, is a bitter bone to chew with nothing but snowbanks and February staring you in the face...
...Assessment concluded: "Genetic technologies may contribute to filling some of the most fundamental needs of mankind -from health care to supplies of food and energy." Yet both Wall Street and the public are taking a longer-term view of the potential profits from recombinant DNA research. Says Richard B. Emmitt, vice president of research for F. Eberstadt of New York: "Most people have been too optimistic about the size and commercial payoff of these companies...
...DIED. Emmitt Douglas, 55, civil rights activist and president of the Louisiana National Association for the Advancement of Colored People since 1968, who in 1956 initiated the lawsuit that desegregated Baton Rouge schools, and in 1971 was charged with inciting to riot during a demonstration against the shooting of two young blacks by white policemen; of a heart attack; in New Roads...
Wilkins' broadside stunned the convention. Board Member Emmitt J. Douglas of Baton Rouge, La., grabbed a microphone on the convention floor and sharply rebuked Wilkins. "I resent allegations against board members unless they are named," snapped Douglas. Besides, he added, Wilkins was reneging on an agreement to retire at year's end. While some board members fretted privately that Wilkins might "kill the organization" with his inflammatory remarks, the N.A.A.C.P.'S rank and file were inclined to listen sympathetically to Wilkins' plea out of sentiment for his long service to the organization...
...ruling that jury trials be held came after Special Juvenile Judge Joseph Ray, hearing a case without a jury, convicted a white suburban couple, Mr. and Mrs. Emmitt Durham, and sentenced them to a year in jail for not allowing their son Alfred, 12, to be bused to a Louisville school. The Durhams are appealing the verdict to a circuit court and demanding a trial by jury...