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Snavely's hometown is Pittsburgh, where he attended Thomas Jefferson High School and starred in football as well as being president of his senior class. He admits that his happiest moments were then, when he led his team to the Pennsylvania state grid championship...
...societies and garden clubs bombarded state and federal officials with indignant letters. If the prison were built, said one, it would be "an affront to the past and an insult to the future." The area around such important houses as Boswell's Tavern, a supposed haunt of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and Patrick Henry, required protection and preservation...
...strongest character in the narrative is the Jefferson Davis of this civil war, Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, the sophisticated and somewhat theatrical Ibo colonel who led the Biafran revolt. But the real hero is Yakubu Gowon, who eventually succeeded in holding the country together...
...there was sometimes narrowness or prejudice among them, it came from their own hard work and the belief handed down from Jefferson that America was to belong to the doers. They had their quota of moneybags, maybe more than the Democrats, but not that many more. They were well off, yes, but mostly by their own hands. Senator Bill Brock figured that among his 26 Tennesseans, no more than eight earned over $25,000 a year...
Just before the Jefferson Airplane went on stage in Akron, another rock group urged the 12,000 people in the audience to dance on the neighboring football field of Akron University, despite the fact that it had been freshly seeded. Outside the stadium, kids threw rocks, and Chick Cassady, the Airplane's manager, allegedly encouraged the youngsters to do battle with the police. When the tear gas cleared, the cops had arrested Cassady, the Airplane's Paul Kantner and Kantner's "old lady" Grace Slick, who either attacked the fuzz or-depending on who was telling...