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DIED. WILLIAM BOOTLE, 102, progressive Southern judge who in 1961 ordered the integration of the University of Georgia; in Macon, Ga. In ruling that two black students who had been denied admission--one of them future TV journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault--were "fully qualified," he set in motion a chain of decisions that resulted in the school's integration within a week. "Right is right," Bootle said...
...could see what that title meant to his classmates, guys from places like Lacombe, Alberta, and Stoneham, Mass., and Macon, Ga. He didn’t know them as well as he knew the Kyle O’Neills and Jeff Quasts and Mark Stefaniaks, his teammates and best buddies back in Essexville, but he knew them well enough to smile...
...complete change of lifestyle. A large, arthritic dog, for example, may no longer be able to climb steps to sleep near its owner. "I've known people to actually move their bedroom downstairs to accommodate the dog," notes John C. Wright, an animal behaviorist at Mercer University in Macon...
...Ching-ling would marry Sun Yat-sen, modern China's founder.) Their father, C.J. (Charlie) Soong, who had been virtually adopted by a group of Methodist evangelists in North Carolina, returned to China intending to be a missionary but became an entrepreneur instead. Mei-ling attended high school in Macon, Ga. She eventually returned home armed with a degree in English literature from Wellesley, the vestiges of a Southern drawl and so little Chinese that she had to be re-educated in her native tongue by a tutor ("The only thing Oriental about me," she reportedly said, "is my face...
...modern China's founder.) Their father, C.V. "Charlie" Soong, who had been virtually adopted by a group of kindly Methodist evangelists in North Carolina, returned to China intending to be a missionary but instead became an entrepreneur. Mei-ling, at the age of 11, entered high school in Macon, Georgia. Nine years later, she returned home armed with a degree in English literature from Wellesley College, the vestiges of a Southern drawl and so little Chinese that she had to be re-educated in her native tongue by a tutor. ("The only thing Oriental about me," she once wrote...