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Heroes & Oddballs. The patriarch of the family was Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, a French Huguenot who liked to kick around offbeat economic and political schemes with his great friend Thomas Jefferson. At least one of his notions paid off. Pierre is credited with swinging Jefferson over to the idea of making the Louisiana Purchase, which turned out to be good for business as well as the country...
...time he was 12, Pettigrew was having arguments over race with his teachers. "They used to send me to the principal because I maintained that Jefferson was a great liberal," he recalls. "Naturally, the opposition of my teachers just fed my convictions." At college at the University of Virginia, liberal professors further bostered his beliefs...
...presidential profile joined those of Lincoln, Jefferson and Roosevelt on U.S. coins as the first John F. Kennedy half-dollars appeared. The new 500 piece (it replaces the Benjamin Franklin coin of 1948 mintage) was such a sellout that banks were forced to ration first-day collectors. Britain's government announced meanwhile that an acre of historic Runnymede, where Magna Carta was signed in 1215, will be given in perpetuity to the U.S. as a memorial to the late President; a simple stone plinth will be placed...
Memorial to God? Meanwhile, Johnson has got himself into hot water with some U.S. Protestants. At the presidential prayer breakfast, he remarked that he thought it was too bad that Washington, with its monuments to Lincoln, Jefferson and Washington, did not have a "fitting memorial to the God who made...
...Altamont, in the state of Catawba. Like Altamont, St. Botolphs, Mass., may be found not in a state of the Union but in a state of mind. In its New England fashion, St. Botolphs is as much an in carnation of the demonology of history as Faulkner's Jefferson, Miss., where the living deal with the ghosts...