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...things could pan out the way they did when Sally Ride shook things up on the space shuttle. With her bad '80s flyaway and skin-tight jumpsuit, Ride seemed as unlikely a candidate for equal rights crusader as Senator Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.). But just as Thurmond found the wherewithal this year to pat Nelson Mandela's back under a statue of Abraham Lincoln after calling the esteemed South African leader a terrorist thug a few years back, Ride surprised observers, especially those of us in elementary school at the time...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: Of Sally Ride and Final Club | 6/9/1999 | See Source »

...things could pan out the way they did when Sally Ride shook things up on the space shuttle. With her bad '80s flyaway and skintight jumpsuit, Ride seemed as unlikely a candidate for equal rights crusader as Senator Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.). But just as Thurmond found the wherewithal this year to pat Nelson Mandela's back under a statue of Abraham Lincoln after calling the esteemed South African leader a terrorist thug a few years back, Ride surprised observers, especially those of us in elementary school at the time...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: Of Sally Ride and Final Clubs | 6/9/1999 | See Source »

...similar reasons, Sen. J. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.) this year has refused to debate his Democratic challenger, Elliott Close...

Author: By Richard M. Burnes, | Title: Election '96: Kerry vs. Weld | 10/30/1996 | See Source »

...Bill R. Teator, a spokesperson for Solomon, says he was, in fact, hopeful about the fate of the ROTC clauses in the Senate because of the support of senators such as Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.), chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee...

Author: By Andrew A. Green, | Title: ROTC Bills Stalled in Senate Committee | 7/26/1996 | See Source »

...recalled how the father of Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.), a prosecutor in Edgefield, S.C., shot and killed a traveling salesperson who called him a liar and a scoundrel...

Author: By Jonathan A. Lewin, | Title: Times Reporter Talks of Crime, Blames Parents | 2/2/1996 | See Source »

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