Word: ga
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...school officials are bound to comply with their wishes. Often following the lead of high school coaches who have held their own sons back, parents insist that their young footballers need an extra year of "maturity" before entering high school. Douglas Griffin, superintendent of schools in Murray County, Ga., recalls, "Our high school basketball coach held his son back in the eighth grade, and he ended up getting a college scholarship. After that, it kind of snowballed." Adds Griffin, who held his own football-playing son back as well: "If a parent makes the request, we honor it. A scholarship...
Samford 73, Ga. Southern...
...Klansmen, who blew up churches. There were the signs--"Whites Only" or "No Coloreds." As other movement historians have documented, civil rights leaders were smart enough to provoke reactions, and when the cops refused to swing away on national t.v --as in the effort to end segregation in Albany, Ga.--the movement's chances dropped dramatically...
...that comes from revenues and some from grants by Texaco, Exxon, First City Bancorporation of Texas, Dresser Industries and Levi Strauss, as well as the state of Texas and the National Endowment for the Arts. This year the group comes East for the first time (stops will include Albany, Ga., Danville, Va., and Asheville, N.C.), and later may go to Alaska...
...even in Hatfield's office, there seems to be little interest in forcing the registration issue. "Who knows, if we bring it up on the floor, (Sen. Sam) Nunn (D-Ga.) might push for a draft--that's what he wants anyway," says Hatfield's adviser, who fears "backing the president against the wall" by focusing too much attention on registration...