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...DIED. Lucious Christopher Bates, 79, a prominent black publisher who, with his wife Daisy (then president of the Arkansas National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), coached and supported nine black students in their historic 1957 desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Ark.; following intestinal surgery; in Little Rock...
ENDS. Leroy Selmon, Oklahoma, 6 ft. 3 in., 256 lbs.; and Troy Archer, Col orado, 6 ft. 3 in., 219 lbs. Selmon, one of the most tantalizing prospects in the draft, is from a family of Oklahoma line men (Brother Lucious played guard two years ago, and Brother Dewey plays it now). Selmon's ability to shed blockers and diagnose plays is not his only at traction. "You can say all the clever things you want," says one scout, "but with Leroy it boils down to one thing...
...lying on my bunk," said Lucious Jackson, 25, a rapist confined on the death row of Georgia State Prison, "when I heard one of the fellows shout that they've knocked it out. I had just about given up hope...
Such distinctions mattered little to Lucious Jackson: "I've been thinking about nothing but death for a long time. Now I can think about living...
...page 244 and may produce Swedish smorgasbord (which, after all, is only a piece of bread with a bit of meat, fish or cheese laid on it and served with butter). While some of the recipes thus draw their charm almost entirely from an exotic name, most teem with lucious promise. Even the grossest of non-gourmets might read on after encountering the book's first sentence: "In America the name of garlic is in bad odor." To which the author adds: "This conception is a libel upon garlic and upon the land of garlic eaters...