Word: rivers
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...grandmother, "it was very, very rough going. What he says is true. And if his grandmother could rise from the grave, she would tell you the same thing." Louis says she walked into her mother's house one day in 1959 to find Connerly, then a freshman at American River Junior College, "sitting down in the kitchen cutting a piece of paste-board and putting it into his shoe. I said, 'What on earth--?' He said, 'The pavement's so hot.' He was covering these big round holes in the soles of his shoes so he could walk to college...
After two years at American River, where he was voted student-body president, Connerly enrolled at Sacramento State, where he won the honor again. On campus he courted Ilene Crews, a white freshman. Interracial relationships were rare, but as a campus leader, Connerly says, "I probably was viewed somewhat differently than most [blacks]." When the couple married in 1962, Crews' parents "were not thrilled, but they came around. We are very close...
When he decided to escape the muggy Memphis heat with a quick plunge into the Wolf River, singer Jeff Buckley had every reason to feel buoyed by good fortune. At 30 he was signed to Columbia Records--the home of Bob Dylan and Miles Davis--and had just settled into a cozy old house in town to begin recording a follow-up to Grace, his powerful 1994 debut. That album, a darkly romantic and stunningly original blend of folk, blues and alternative rock, had earned Buckley a reputation as a superstar in the making, much as Greetings from Asbury Park...
...evening of May 29, after driving to the Memphis marina with a member of his road crew, Jeff inexplicably waded, fully clothed, into the muddy river. As the roadie watched from the riverbank, Buckley swam far out. When the wake of a passing boat splashed ashore, the roadie turned away for a moment to move Buckley's guitar and radio to safety. When he looked up again, Buckley had disappeared. He never came back up. After six days of searching, police last week pulled his body from the water near Beale Street, Memphis' music...
...Grumbly, whose trip the lobbyist had arranged. Grumbly suggested that the firm could receive as much as $200 million in federal work, which sent the stock soaring. Gore, who wrote a best-selling book on the environment, joined the cheerleading in April 1995. He traveled to the Fall River, Mass., plant to deliver an Earth Day speech in which he plugged Knight's client as a "shining example of American ingenuity." But as Forbes magazine wrote in January 1996, Molten Metal had yet to prove its method was cost-effective...