Word: savannah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Captain reminisced over lunch. He recalled how, in the course of dealing with Johnson, he had come to like and admire Moyers. One day last August, Moyers phoned Guggenheim, who was lounging in his trunks on a Savannah beach, to give him a message from L.B.J. On the spur of the moment the Captain said, "Bill, everybody leaves the Government sooner or later. When you are ready to go, how about coming to work for Newsday?" To Guggenheim's surprise Moyers was willing, replying that he might quit "sooner rather than later." Thus, at 32, Moyers...
...Duke's Douglas Knight-are all nationally oriented administrators who refuse to keep old Southern traditions at the cost of academic quality. Of the quartet, only Heard is from the South, showing how trustees of their schools reached out to seek the best available men anywhere. Yet Savannah-born Alex Heard, 48, is even more outspokenly critical of Southern educational provincialism than the three Northerners. "We in the South cannot duck behind the thought that if we show up in the rear ranks in national ratings, the ratings measure the wrong things," he says...
...Englander exploited his native resourcefulness. "New England," ran the popular taunt, "produces nothing but granite and ice." So energetic New Englanders, making an economic virtue out of a geographical necessity, harvested their rocky hills and frozen ponds, virtually created the markets for their products, shipped granite to Savannah and New Orleans, ice to Persia, India and Australia. The same restless and ingenious spirit drove New England manufacturers who developed specialized machines to replace unspecialized men, ensured the prosperity of the mobile American who could "make anything, do anything, go anywhere...
...Savannah Jr.: the $419,460 All-American Futurity for quarter horses, richest horse race in the world; at Ruidoso Downs, N. Mex. A 12-1 long shot, Savannah Jr. sped 400 yds. "through the mud in 20.3 sec. to score an easy 21-length victory, earn $192,730 -or roughly...
...wasn't able to sleep or do any work," admits Senior Warden W. Hunter Saussy, a vice president and trust officer of the Savannah Bank & Trust Co. "I don't think any of us were happy...