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...improve his state's mental health program by building more and better hospitals; and Emilie Chorn Blair, his wife. 58; both from accidental asphyxiation (carbon monoxide fumes sucked into the airconditioning system of their home from the garage where their Cadillac was parked, its engine running); in Jefferson City...
...free home delivery offered by the Jefftown Journal is hardly a bargain. All who read the paper live within the walls of the Missouri State Prison at Jefferson City, where the Journal is printed by its inmate staff. The Journal's policy is to look for the silver lining; it reports the bleak news of prison life in the brightest voice it can muster, and it encourages prisoners to work toward rehabilitation. But most Journal readers share a common misery that goes untouched by such institutional cheer. Lately they have found a wry spokesman in the Journal...
Rousing Rabble. Yoknapatawpha and its county seat, Jefferson, have their pale counterpart in actuality: Lafayette County and Oxford, where Faulkner lived, worked and occasionally puzzled his mildly curious fellow citizens. "The posted woods on my property contain several tame squirrels," he advised them a few years ago in a sarcastic no-trespassing notice he published in the weekly Oxford Eagle. "Any hunter who feels himself too lacking in woodcraft and marksmanship to approach a dangerous wild squirrel, might feel safe with these." But the real county is the one Faulkner invented, just as the real Troy is Homer...
...Russia speaks for itself. All you've got to do is teach the facts. You don't have to indoctrinate." Teachers often depend on a parallel study of American institutions: Chicago students are exposed to contrasting quotes on the same subject, such as Stalin and Thomas Jefferson on the rights of the minority. A sixth-grade class...
WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON Edward A. Weeks, editor, the Atlantic LL.D...