Word: shreveport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...television newsman in Shreveport, La., was erroneously reported to have had his car repossessed. It took him more than a year to have that false report corrected, and his battle with the credit agency has since cost him a job and a home loan...
Except for a Technicality. A voice from the past heartily concurred. Said John T. Scopes, now 68, a retired geologist living in Shreveport, La.: "This is what I've been working for all along." Except for a legal technicality, Scopes might have achieved last week's victory more than four decades ago. Indicted for teaching Darwinian theory in the 1925 test case, he was convicted and fined a nominal $100 by a circuit court judge. Tennessee's Supreme Court later voided the circuit court fine, on the ground that the jury and not the judge should have...
...burst its banks, the Arkansas was nonetheless a busy waterway. Keelboats explored it in the early 1800s. By the 1820s side-wheelers pushed past the Fort Smith sandbars. Before going to Texas, Sam Houston steamed up a tributary in Oklahoma to wed his Cherokee beauty. Henry Shreve, founder of Shreveport, in 1833 eliminated 1,500 navigational snags, but boatmen still grumbled that the river's "bottom is too near its top." By the 1870s, the snags, sandbars and erratic flow were stifling traffic along the Arkansas, and when rails spanned the river at the turn of the century, even...
...wants to see Carol, he has to follow her around. She is the hottest performer on the ladies' pro tour. Last week she sank a 12-ft. birdie putt on the last hole to win the $11,500 Shreveport, La., Kiwanis Club Open and walk off with her third victory in a row, a feat topped by only one other female pro in history: Mickey Wright, who twice won four straight -and lost to Carol by one stroke last week...
Like Carol, the ladies' tour has come a long way in a short time. In 1961, only $186,000 in prize money was at stake; this year the total is up to more than $500,000. Carol Mann's victory at Shreveport earned her $1,725, boosted her 1968 earnings to $9,550, tops on the tour. By contrast, Tom Weiskopf, the No. 1 moneywinner on the men's circuit, has already earned $73,322 this year-almost 75% of what Carol has won in her eight years...