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...Staubach took off his Navy uniform and joined the Dallas Cowboys to serve on their taxi squad behind Quarterbacks Craig Morton and Don Meredith. Then, in quick succession, Don Meredith announced his surprise retirement and Craig Morton was injured-leaving Staubach to start the opening game of the season against the St. Louis Cardinals. In the first quarter Staubach fired a 75-yd. touchdown pass, and the Cowboys were never headed as they won 24-3. Off and on over the next two seasons, Coach Landry, a Methodist minister known to his players as the "Rev. T.L.," alternated Staubach...
Their daughter Meredith ("Muffy") was born three years later, and Beverly eagerly curtailed her operatic schedule to spend more time at home. Within a year, she and Peter began to suspect what was confirmed just before Muffy's second birthday: the child was almost totally deaf. In a piece of Sophoclean irony, Muffy would never hear the sound of her mother's singing...
...players who campaign for popular or electoral votes. According to the directions, each party fields a candidate for President and Vice President and "attempts to win the election by campaigning, advertising and debating throughout the nation." Fictitious names are used. For example, a player might choose Republican Hoyt ("Red") Meredith, a New Hampshire Senator, to run for President against Georgia's Democratic Congressman Frank O'Brien. Each candidate has preassigned numerical ratings for his campaign ability, financial support, fund-raising potential and press backing. Cards provide bonuses or setbacks. By the final tally, players will have suffered...
CHARLES CLARK, 46. Also a Nixon appointee to the Fifth Circuit Court, in 1969, Clark likewise had no earlier experience on the bench. In 1962, as special assistant to the Mississippi attorney general, he successfully defended Governor Ross Barnett on contempt charges for forcibly resisting the admission of James Meredith to the University of Mississippi. Civil rights advocates consider him a moderate Southerner...
...Rudyard Kipling, whose growth shows the influence of John Crowe Ransom and T.S. Eliot and whose maturity, in turn, affected Theodore Roethke and John Berryman. It is somehow easier to believe Tate has had three children in the past four years than to realize Robert E. Lee and James Meredith could figure in his imagination simultaneously...