Word: missed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brookhaven, Miss...
...intention of moving -particularly not to a small Deep South city. Says he: "I'm a product of the hustle-bustle megalopolis." In 1972, however, he could not turn down an offer to become the first black general manager of a U.S. TV station-WLBT in Jackson, Miss...
...common practice) and because many of them are church-affiliated, a great plus in the South. Many parents gladly send their children on long bus rides to get to the private schools. Admittedly, the academies may have eased the desegregation process to some degree. As one Meridian, Miss., white fifth-grader told his mother some years back: "There won't be any trouble; all the troublemakers have gone to the private schools...
Since it was launched in 1973 by Reporter-turned-Lawyer Michael R. Levy, 30, Texas Monthly has taken on just about every sacred steer in the Lone Star State: college football, the Miss Texas Pageant, oil barons, the Texas Rangers, Dallas banks. TM's exposure of a backwoods speed trap near San Antonio that collected fines of $168,000 a year led to suits by the county and a nearby town. No Texas legislator on TM's biennial "ten best" list has ever been defeated, while 40% of those listed among the "ten worst" are out of office...
...carry 16%. Brent, a short, wiry man of 64, foresaw the boom and cashed in on it. His net worth stands at some $10 million -enough, he says, to buy "all the whisky and steaks I want," with plenty left over for philanthropy in his home town of Greenville, Miss. The wealth comes mainly from Brent Towing Co., whose 48 barges and 13 towboats make it one of the largest privately owned towboat companies...