Word: jessee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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As Reagan leaders waged their surprisingly gentlemanly drive to find an explosive issue, they faced the touchy task of controlling some of his more zealous conservative supporters. "I don't know if all those emotional conventioneers are as interested in electing a President as they are in slaying a...
The Reagan troops expected this sort of thing from the Ford backers, but also braced themselves for the expected assault from conservative supporters-yet they were jolted by its ferocity. Fumed Mississippi Congressman Trent Lott: "He blew it. Reagan took a long shot, and it isn't going to...
They spirited slaves up that way on a branch of the Underground Railroad out of Missouri, secreting them in the old limestone farmhouses that had grown up beside the creeks that flooded in the spring and ran dry in the fall. Henry Wallace, of the family that helped revolutionize agriculture...
Traditionally, the loudest cheer of West Point's graduation ceremonies goes to the "goat," the cadet who finishes at the bottom of his class. As No. 835 in a class of 835, Goat Jesse Owens won a creditable round of applause at Michie Stadium last week. But the biggest...
Others receiving the awards at the university's 375th commencement included Elizabeth Drew, journalist; William G. Milliken, governor of Michigan; Jesse W. Beams, professor of Physics emeritus at the University of Virginia; William R. Hewlett, president of the Hewlett-Packard Corporation; and Franklin S. Cooper, associate director of research at...