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...TELEVISION St. John's at W.V. (bkc), ESPN2, 7:30 p.m. Purdue at Ind. (bkc), ESPN, 7:30 p.m. Celtics at Heat, Ch. 68, 8 p.m. Michigan at Ohio St. (bkc), NESN, 8 p.m. Bruins at Oilers, WSBK, 9 p.m. Ole Miss at Auburn (bkc), ESPN 9:30 p.m. Temple at St. Joe's (bkc), ESPN2...
...colleagues or checking with House leaders. "This was not supposed to get out so early," complained a Senator close to the deal. But Lott acted impulsively. Stung by stories suggesting that he had taken refuge in Pascagoula while Washington was burning, the former head cheerleader from his days at Ole Miss wanted to set the record straight. "I wasn't hiding out," Lott explained. "I was working...
...first black elected to Congress from Mississippi since Reconstruction, he looked like the archetype of a new breed of crossover politician--shrewd enough to reach out to whites by standing up for prayer in schools and by posing in ads for the National Rifle Association. Even some good ole boys predicted that he would someday be Governor or Senator. Though he was doing a terrific job, Espy was forced out of office for chump change. Instead of moving on to a glittering future, he got kicked out of the Cabinet in disgrace and saddled with legal fees of more than...
...August 1976. The Reagan people in the balcony would not shut up. Roberts' Rules of Order could go to hell. The Californians on one side of the hall screamed, "!Viva!" and those on the other side howled back, "!Ole!" The convention nominated Gerald Ford anyway. Reagan would have to wait four years. I smoked three or four packs that day and, in the bluish cigarette haze of a room in the Muehlbach, wrote TIME's cover story: dreary convention, dismal story; hot, clear Kansas City summer outside. At least that's what I remember...
When he was just a ruddy-faced lad newly graduated from Ole Miss, Jim Barksdale applied for work as a salesman for the first monopoly of the info age, IBM. Barksdale had an in: his elder brother and mentor, Jack, was already employed by Big Blue. Alas, the advantage proved to be short-lived. "I don't know if I can have two Barksdales working for me," said the sales manager who interviewed...