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Point of View. In Plainview, Tex., after she was ticketed for backing out of a parking space into an oncoming car, Housewife Sarah Ona Baxter told the judge: "I think it's a crying shame that you give me a ticket and not the man I hit. He could see me backing out a lot better than I could...
...G.I.s in Japan raised more than $900 to buy a round-trip ticket for a Japanese girl who wanted to study at Baptist Way-and College in Plainview, Texas. In Korea more than $500 was contributed to educate a Korean theological student and support his family...
...Negroes. This year, before she could qualify for a renewed contract, state law required that she go back to school herself for some courses in elementary education. And the most convenient place for "Miss Annie" to do her graduate work was Wayland College, a white Baptist institution at Plainview, only 28 miles away...
...night two years ago, he crawled around the ring on his hands & knees as Cerdan's sledgehammer blows smashed him to the floor seven times in eight rounds. After that beating, handsome Lavern Roach, a good fighter who had been brought along too fast, went back home to Plainview, Texas with his wife and daughter, and took a job selling insurance...
...even in Plainview Lavern Roach still heard the roar of the crowd and the money-jingling song of the promoters. Last week, after three tune-up fights along the comeback trail, Middleweight (159½ Ibs.) Roach shuffled his feet in the rosin box at Manhattan's St. Nicholas Arena and waited for the bell. The memory of what "Cerdan did to him had apparently faded; he insisted that he felt as strong and fast as ever...