Word: jr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...memory of Ralph McGill, the anti-racist newspaperman who was once derided as Rastus McGill by people who now speak reverentially of his contribution to the community. The city's best-known monument is not a statue to the Confederate fallen but the grave of Martin Luther King Jr. The civil rights activists who once used Atlanta's airports to travel the South, organizing the struggle, are now in City Hall: these days, they travel the world, organizing high-rise office building projects...
Bentsen's father Lloyd Sr. was well on his way to his first million by the time Lloyd Jr. was born in a small cottage on a dirt road in Mission, Texas. "Big Lloyd" arrived in Texas from South Dakota with $1.50 in his pocket and became one of the largest landowners in the Rio Grande Valley. He started his empire with a grocery and a land-clearing operation. He hired Mexican laborers to clear the land, and instead of paying them half the contract price, as was the custom, he paid them the full amount -- but in scrip good...
...Lloyd Jr. graduated from the University of Texas with a law degree in 1942 and enlisted in the Army. As a bomber pilot in Europe, he flew 50 missions. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross after being shot down twice...
Actu'lly, th' funniest part of the show is th' costumes. I liked Weston's hobo outfit that makes him look like Emmett Kelly Jr., Wesley's jeans that sit too low in th' seat and that zip instead of button, Ella's sensible shoes with heels th' size of hockey pucks, Emma's cute little shitkickers and Ellis' golden drugstorecowboy suit. I 'specially liked what th' two thugs (Laurence Thomsen n' Eric Oleson) wear: plaid bellbottoms n' white chaps, respectively (n' the yo-yo is a nice touch, Laurence). Not too accurate--no self-respectin' Westerner would be caught...
Jackson has won the support of some white liberals, but the folks in Thomasville are still wary. White Democrats rallied behind Sen. Albert J. Gore, Jr. '69 (D-Tenn.) on Super Tuesday, hoping to prevent a Jackson victory in their state...