Word: forrester
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Challenger tragedy six years ago, the space agency put a premium on caution -- but only up to a point. NASA's top ranks are dominated by gung-ho former astronauts who are determined to keep launches on a tight schedule. An apparent victim of that policy is FORREST MCCARTNEY, director of the Kennedy Space Center, who was forced out last month after he twice refused to approve a final "go for launch" because of safety concerns. Both flights went smoothly after the problems were fixed -- in one case a hydrogen-fuel leak and in another a warped hinge and latch...
...saga of Forrest Carter's book is a publisher's dream. The Education of Little Tree, a sensitive memoir of Carter's Native American childhood, was published in hard-cover in 1976 to little fanfare. Released in softcover by the University of New Mexico Press this year, the book now tops the New York Times paperback best-seller list, with 600,000 copies in print...
...book a hoax? Yes, says Dan T. Carter, a history professor at Emory University. In an op-ed page piece in the New York Times last week, Carter charged that the late Forrest Carter was not a Cherokee at all. Instead, he was Asa Earl Carter, whom the professor describes as a "Ku Klux Klan terrorist, right-wing radio announcer, home-grown American fascist and anti-Semite...
...same was swiftly disputed by the author's executor and Asa Earl Carter's brother Doug. The latter did acknowledge that Asa wrote speeches for Alabama's George Wallace, including the infamous lines "Segregation now. Segregation tomorrow. Segregation forever!" But old friends point out that Asa and Forrest Carter looked alike, used the same address and were the same age. Perhaps the book should be retitled The Mystery of Little Tree...
...year-old Nathaniel is bold enough to visit a black juke joint to listen to the music) and Lily too poetically noble. The town's first racial protest, moreover, is a sit-in that might have been a model for Gandhi. To protest the verdict in a case that Forrest has prosecuted, demonstrators gather slowly on the courthouse steps. They sit motionless, hushed, intense -- almost holy. The way it was? Or the way TV would prefer to remember...