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...Thomas Jr. has been a political junkie since he was a kid working for his father, who ran Sam Thomas Mercantile Co. ("The Poor Man's Friend") in Quitman. Nita first met him when he was 16, driving a yellow pickup, racing voters down dusty roads to the polls. They were married in 1950, and from there they went on to build a comfortable, prosperous life, largely through Sam's property dealings, and to have four children. One of them, Patti Harper, picked us up at the Shreveport airport with her own two offspring corralled in the back...
...kind of hot Indiana hot weather that sends the family dog scrooching under the pickup truck to enjoy the shade. But in South Bend, on the Notre Dame and St. Mary's College campuses, heroic athletes from 70 countries were running and jumping and laughing from the sheer joy of it all. No, these were not the Pan American Games, which were to start a few days later, downstate at Indianapolis. The competitors there, everyone knew, would run faster and jump higher. But not happier; world happiness records were being set here at the Seventh International Summer Special Olympics...
...merely stopped his six- wheeler to stretch at about 3 a.m., when a motorist shot out his windshield; flying glass cut Miller's face. Stephen Broderson, 19, said he had made "your normal, everyday lane change" on the San Diego Freeway, when the occupants of a Datsun King Cab pickup tried to force him off the road and fired two rifle bullets into the side of his car. According to police, Edward Petterez, 21, of South Gate, simply honked at a passenger van when it cut in front of him. Result: two shots that fortunately missed...
Compared with most Northern cities, as Smith concedes, Topeka has made huge strides toward integration of its schools since she was forced to walk five blocks to a pickup point, from which she was bused to all-black Monroe Elementary School, although all-white Sumner School was located just two blocks from her home. And unlike cities in the Deep South, where whites began a generation of resistance to desegregation, Topeka did not even wait for the court to rule before taking steps to amalgamate its black and white elementary schools...
...gray-haired 69-year-old wearing a flannel shirt and khaki pants. He may suddenly appear behind any Wal-Mart checkout counter to help the clerk approve a personal check. Or you may see the same grandfatherly figure driving his red-and-white 1984 Ford pickup through the parking lot, counting customers' cars as he goes. Or he may show up at the loading dock with a bag of doughnuts for a surprised crew of workers. Or, at a new-store opening, he may round up the employees for a pep rally at which he will serve as head cheerleader...