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Mayor Samuel McCabe Hairston, 49, stopped in at Woodfin's Pharmacy first thing on this rainy day, for everyone he needed to see would be there. The entire business community drops in at Woodfin's for coffee at 9 o'clock each morning, after picking up the mail at the post office, to discuss the current drought and other local problems. Said an attorney in the crowd: "We are a very small town and we want to keep it that way. Everybody knows everybody else -Morning, Bruce-and the chances are that you are related to them...
...farm, keep your place clean and pay your taxes," complains Frank Pierce, 56, an archetypal Southern farmer in bib overalls. He says that many farmers are turning to moonshine whisky to see them through. Even so, there is a basic optimism. "Folks can do all right," maintains Mayor Hairston...
Physically, blacks and whites live close together in Chatham. "We don't have those subdivisions like you have in the North," says Hairston. Some 40% of the voters in the county are "Nigras," and Joseph Galloway, a black, is on the town council. But the barriers remain. Says Sam Swanson, a white: "Let's face it: the white man is afraid of the black man. The trust is there with those blacks we work with, but they are called Uncle Toms...
College English instructors have made similar complaints in the past, but the percentage of incompetent writers among entering freshmen has risen in recent years. Maxine Hairston, director of freshman English at the University of Texas at Austin, blames the shortcomings on the fact that high school students do not read as much as their predecessors. "They were reared on television," she says. "They simply were not forced to use the language very much." Says Robert Hosman, chairman of the University of Miami's English department: "The fundamentals are not being taught properly in secondary schools. The SAT [Scholastic Aptitude...
...Lakers won't really pose any serious threat to the Bucks. "They've had a difficult season at best," Sanders Said. And they are riddled by old age in Bill Bridges, Happy Hairston and Connie Hawkins...