Word: shreveport
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Grambling, La., is a sleepy Negro town in the heart of the peapatch and catfish country. The best way to get there is by car from Shreveport, over a highway that is partly pitted blacktop, built by Huey Long in the 1930s. But there is not much point in making the trip-unless, of course, you happen to be an athlete. Grambling is the home of Grambling College, a state-operated school with only 3,700 students, half of them girls, and year after year some of the best college football players in the nation. At last count, 17 Grambling...
Just how badly was shown when the results were in. McKeithen won by a 41,000-vote plurality, 492,000 to 451,000. Now he must face Republican Oilman Charlton Lyons, a Shreveport conservative, in the March 3 general election. No Republican has been elected Governor in Louisiana since...
However, the blame should not all be placed on Governor Wallace, for the "nonviolence" movements of Martin Luther King and his lieutenants have stirred up so much racial strife and feeling that they are directly responsible for these sad results. PHIL K. COCHRAN Shreveport...
...northwest Louisiana's Fourth Congressional District, liberals are about as popular as the cottonmouths that abound in the swamps about Shreveport. Last week, in a special election to fill the seat of Democratic Representative Overton Brooks, who died Sept. 16, the voters of the Fourth had just the sort of choice they liked: arch-Conservative Democrat Joe D. Waggonner Jr., 43, was pitted against arch-Conservative Republican Charlton H. Lyons, 67. When the votes were counted, Waggonner was the winner -by 33,846 votes to 28,275, a remarkably narrow margin for a Democratic congressional candidate in Louisiana...
...Life. Last week, between showings of Fanny, customers got 37 minutes of Americana that included the choir from Centenary College in Shreveport, La., singing Beautiful Dreamer before a backdrop of amiably winking stars. French tumblers sang while they somersaulted, and a ballet was performed before a village bandstand to John Philip Sousa marches, in which the dancers spread their skirts in semicircular swirls, suggesting so many red, white and blue cheese cutters. And, of course, the celebrated chorus line of Rockettes was there, kicking and tapping with brilliant puellageneity. In the end, a glowing reproduction of the Statue of Liberty...