Word: missourians
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That learning has already come for Richard Coombes, a lanky Missourian. Despite much self-doubt, Coombes has made it through the school with a 91.4 average. As instructors pump his hand, the ex-store clerk clutches a diploma in tractor-trailer driving and grins broadly. "I kept telling myself, 'You can do it. You can do it.' " He sallies into the Texas night, now a king of the road with a new measure of self-esteem: "I can't think of anything that hasn't been hauled in a truck," he says...
...Last week, however, researchers jolted the medical community with evidence that the disease may have made its first appearance in the U.S. almost 15 years earlier. In a front-page article in the Chicago Tribune, they related the extraordinary saga of Robert R., a 16-year-old black Missourian who, they believe, died of AIDS in 1969. The case may represent the earliest documented instance of AIDS in North America, predating that of Gaetan Dugas, a Canadian flight attendant. Dugas, who contracted AIDS before 1980 and died in 1984, was publicly identified as "Patient Zero" only last month. Tissue samples...
...Wilson, like Allen before him, has run a tough, efficient operation with very few frills. While many Seattle offices look out on picturesque Puget Sound and snowcapped Mount Rainier, Boeing's corporate headquarters faces a railroad track and an airstrip in a grimy industrial zone. A down-to-earth Missourian, Wilson, 65, has been known to drop in on the machinists' annual Christmas party with one of his wife's pecan pies. During the airline-industry slump in the early 1970s, however, he did not hesitate to lay off nearly two-thirds of the company's 148,000 workers...
Atwater sees his school as a training ground for a new generation of journalists, preparing for an increasingly challenging profession. Missouri combines a strong academic program with practical training, including work on a university TV station and on the Columbia Missourian, a small-city newspaper (circ. 6,500) put out by the journalism school. "The Missourian is a competitive commercial daily," says Atwater, "and we do all the local news programming for the station." More important, he says, "we give students a sense of how journalists should perform in a world where morally and technically complex stories have become contentious...
Bradley held 28 different Army posts while working his way up through a series of teaching, training and administrative assignments. After the war, his fellow Missourian Harry Truman nominated Bradley as the first postwar head of the Veterans Administration and then, in 1949, as first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In that position, Bradley was awarded the fifth star, accorded to a General of the Army, a title held by only four other men since the Civil War: George Marshall, Douglas MacArthur, Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold and Eisenhower...