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...Negro culture in America. Dr. George Washington Carver who came up from slavery, learned to go to school, devoted himself to his own research in "God's little workshop," and eventually developed 300 useful products from the peanut, 118 from the sweet potato, and more than 60 from the pecan. And W. C. Handy, who taught himself how to play a $1.75 trumpet, joined a band of roving minstrels, and became famous writing songs like "St. Louis Blues." After his success, his father told him, "Sonny, I am very proud of you and forgive you for becoming a musician...
Sunday, May 11 TEXAS OPEN GOLF TOURNAMENT (ABC, 3-5 p.m.). Final round from the Pecan Valley Country Club in San Antonio...
Dissident students at the University of Texas pelt their teacher with pecan pralines. From his hospital bed two days later, Professor Lyndon Johnson accepts post at Berkeley...
...than the ports of St. Louis, Memphis, Pittsburgh or St. Paul. The new port is also expected to generate 14,000 new jobs and $500 million in investment. But all that must wait until a channel is dug from a big tract of land where cottonwoods, scrub oak and pecan trees now stand. For the present, though, it is rather jarring to see a big white water tower with the legend PORT CITY OF CATOOSA rising above acre after acre of dry, dusty land...
P.G.A. CHAMPIONSHIP (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.)* Taped highlights of the second round of play from Pecan Valley Country Club, San Antonio. Live coverage of third round on Saturday, 6-7:30 p.m.; final round Sunday...