Word: odum
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Died. Howard Washington Odum, 70, dean of Southern sociologists and one of the earliest and most influential voices raised against the South's triple problem of poverty, race and regionalism; in Chapel Hill, N.C. During his 34 years at the University of North Carolina, Georgia-born Sociologist Odum exhorted his fellow Southerners (in 200-odd books, articles and monographs) to abandon provincialism, utilize to the fullest their great resources of power, climate, soil and men. He preached his message in scholarly tomes (Southern Regions of the United States) and popular novels (Rainbow Round My Shoulder), lived...