Word: jessee
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The Alabama Democratic Conference, the state's black political machine, strongly supported McMillan in the primary. They brought in Jesse Jackson and Coretta Scott King to speak against Wallace, to remind blacks of what Wallace had been. The majority of blacks (an estimated 65%) went against Wallace. Still, it...
Before the cheerleaders could say '"Louisiana Negro Normal and Industrial Institute, hold that line!" the other team had usually scored. So in the 1940s, 300 victories ago, they renamed the place Grambling, and Eddie Robinson was already the football coach. He was the only coach then. The night watchman...
The galleries of the ornate chamber were but two-thirds full, and the Senators chatted amiably and joked with one another as they filtered onto the floor last week. Yet if the mood seemed light and frivolous, the vote was decidedly not: for the fourth time in one week, Jesse...
Bumpers is hardly the only Senator who dislikes Helms. "There's a lot of irritability about him trying to drag us through a lot of issues we just don't need to deal with," observes one moderate Republican. Neither is the North Carolinian considered an effective legislator by...
The Lady was not able to go to the mountain (Fuji, that is), but the mountainous Takamiyama came to the Lady. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, on a visit to Asia, was ready to tussle with Japanese officials over matters of state. The Tetsu no Onna (Iron Lady) was not...