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...more than 50 years, four women have watched the area grow and the students change. Alice Knox '19, Estelle Sutherland, Helen Cummings and Bess Makris have worked at the Coop for the past half-century...

Author: By Wendy R. Meltzer, | Title: Half-century Veterans Chronicle Changes | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

...Hard Knox...

Author: By Wendy R. Meltzer, | Title: Half-century Veterans Chronicle Changes | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

...This cleaned-up-for-TV look at an American platoon in 1967 might have just passed muster a couple of years ago, before the recent surge of Hollywood interest in Viet Nam. After Platoon and Full Metal Jacket, it just won't do. When a battle-hardened sergeant (Terence Knox) grills a group of new recruits in search of "winners, survivors" for his platoon, he rules out marijuana users right away: "If you're smokin' dope and gettin' high, you're not listenin' to me. You don't listen to me, you're gonna get me killed." That doesn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Yup, Yup and Away! | 10/5/1987 | See Source »

...Ridley could hardly separate his personal business from the town's. He used his city credit card to visit a daughter in Texas, vacation in Florida and attend the Southern Baptist Convention, claiming that as mayor he was on duty 24 hours a day. He and his brother Knox, a former judge, owned Smyrna's Chevrolet dealership, which serviced cars for the city. A conflict-of-interest suit filed against Sam dragged on for seven years, through two of his re-elections. Then, facing an impending decree from a judge that he leave office, the mayor abruptly resigned this month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennessee: A New Face in City Hall | 6/1/1987 | See Source »

...Smyrna's dynasty survives. The five-member town commission took all of ten minutes to name Brother Knox to fill out the remaining 2 1/2 years of Sam's term. Said Knox: "Sam will be my right arm." Municipal policies will remain unchanged, and voters may not even notice that a new man is in charge: born 20 minutes apart 67 years ago, now with the same type eyeglasses and portly build, Sam and Knox are identical twins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennessee: A New Face in City Hall | 6/1/1987 | See Source »

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