Word: mattox
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...going to the Supreme Court, officials of both states last week announced they had joined with the estate to reach a compromise: Texas will receive $50 million; California, $44 million in cash plus a $75 million parcel of land near Los Angeles International Airport. Texas' Attorney General Jim Mattox boasted that the settlement would finance the state's annual cost of operating the agriculture department, the public utilities commission and the attorney general's office. Less ecstatic was Hughes' cousin William Lummis, who is administering the estate on behalf of 32 heirs. Said he: "I think...
...People for the American Way, a liberal group that wages First Amendment campaigns, began pressuring the Texas board to rescind its 1974 rule. They were joined last month by a powerful ally: Texas State Attorney General Jim Mattox concluded that the rule was unconstitutional because it was motivated by "a concern for religious sensibilities rather than a dedication to scientific truth." Two weeks ago the Texas board of education repealed the controversial measure. Said American Way Coordinator Michael Hudson: "This is going to free publishers to write about science accurately, unhampered by religious dogma. It undoes ten years of creationist...
...inmates until the proportionality issue is decided, it does nothing to make future executions less likely. Says Texas Civil Liberties Union Executive Director John Duncan: "What we got was a short-term victory. I'm not at all optimistic about the long-term implications." Texas Attorney General Jim Mattox was not happy either. "It just seems to me that these considerations could have been made earlier," he said, "before you have a man strapped to the table with the saline solution going into his arms...
...pipes. But when no one is drilling, no one is buying tubular pipes. Opinion in Lone Star is divided about when, or even whether, prosperity will return to town. "There's a lot of people leaving, and we know we'll lose some good citizens," says B.R. Mattox, a laid-off steel worker who is also Lone Star's part-time judge. "But most of us are taking the attitude that this is a four-to-six-month ordeal...
Thomas H. Mattox '82, who ordered the film from the Key Society, blamed the mixup on United Artists, Inc. "In the catalogue, it's not even listed that you can get the film in another language," he said yesterday. The organization paid $500 for the movie...