Word: parker
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People for the American Way (PFAW) picked the forum for a showdown over texts because Texas, as the nation's second largest purchaser of schoolbooks ($60 million this year), sets a tone for books throughout the U.S. by influencing how publishers tailor their texts. Says Barbara Parker, head of PFAW's National Schools and Libraries Project: "Censorship activity is so well organized that the only way to combat it is through an equal amount of organization. If 93% of a community doesn't want The Catcher in the Rye, that's O.K. That...
...James V. Parker Jr. Holly Hill...
DIED. Lucille Parker Markey, 85, queen of the sport of kings and owner of fabled Calumet Farm; of pneumonia; in Miami. A native Kentuckian, the Grand Lady of the Turf brought a sense of exacting style to the 850-acre, perfectly manicured (23 miles of white painted fences) Lexington farm, which she supervised after the death of her first husband, Warren Wright, in 1950. For more than two decades, Calumet dominated American racing, gathering the Kentucky Derby roses an unprecedented eight times, the Preakness black-eyed Susans seven times and two Triple Crown trophies with Whirlaway (1941) and Citation...
DIED. Edward ("Sonny") Stitt, 58, swinging jazz saxophonist in the tradition of Charlie Parker; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. Stitt, a jazz scholar once said, knows "every lick and trick in the book...
...over the years has benefited from the aid of a stunning array of officials and advisers with excellent Government contacts. At one time or another, these have included: John McCone, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and later head of the CIA under John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson; Parker Hart, former Ambassador to Saudi Arabia; and Charls Walker, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury under Richard Nixon. Today two powerful members of the Reagan Administration are former top Bechtel officers: Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Deputy Secretary of Energy W. Kenneth Davis...