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...years. Begun in 1886, the fair expanded to nearly its present size in 1936, the year of the Texas Centennial. While it has traditionally been a showcase for Texas chauvinism, the character of the fair has changed somewhat in the past two decades. Says General Manager Joseph B. Rucker Jr.: "We wanted the fair to have an educational and cultural justification to place it beyond the ordinary festival." This year the motif is "Expo-Trans-Port," and the fair features an impressive mock-up of the new four-terminal airport presently under construction between Dallas and Fort Worth. There...
First stop for would-be chopper pilots is sere Fort Wolters, Texas, where they spend 16 weeks learning to handle light training helicopters. Then come 16 weeks of more advanced work at Fort Rucker, Ala. For the first eight weeks, Rucker students fly only under hoods, learning to maneuver their prized Hueys on instruments alone...
...make the best of the situation. "There were too many colored kids," said Ninth-Grader Denise Richards after her first day at Taylor. "I'm going to try it, though." So were most of her fellow students. "I'm not going to school for race," said Mary Rucker, a black junior. "I'm going to get an education...
Starting pitcher Bob Dorwart held B.U. in check for eight innings, allowing only five hits. One of those hits, however, was a third-inning homer by Reggie Rucker with two men aboard that gave the Terriers an early 3-0 lead...
John Tyson, like Chickenman, seems to be "everywhere, everywhere." When Rucker juggled a 17-yard pass on the Harvard 11 in the second quarter, Tyson snatched it away and scampered 15 yards. When Thornton seemed about to waltz into the Crimson end-zone on a six-yard roll out around left end early in the fourth quarter, Tyson came from out of nowhere to drop him on the one-yard line. Driven almost by instinct on a second-and-8 play in the same quarter, Tyson moved up from safety to stop Smith's slant off tackle for no gain...