Word: southeastern
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taxpayers $365 million a year, has failed to stall the inexorable decline of the 200,000 marginal Southeastern cotton farmers, who cannot compete in world markets because they are growing the wrong crop in the wrong place. It has gravely penalized the 35,000 bigger U.S. cotton growers, who could compete against any cotton growers anywhere if only given the freedom to do so. These efficiently automated farmers-mostly in the flat and well irrigated Mississippi Delta, the Texas plains and California's San Joaquin Valley-can work only a fraction of their productive lands because of acreage controls...
...singing." The influences pointing the way were Pianists Nat Cole and Bud Powell and Trumpeter Miles Davis. A New Jersey boy, Evans studied classical piano as a youngster, at twelve filled in one evening with a local dance band and was hooked on jazz. He played his way through Southeastern Louisiana College, there first heard the records of Saxophonist Lee Konitz and the Lennie Tristano school: "I felt for the first time as if I were hearing jazz played that hadn't been learned by osmosis; they were making an effort to build something...
...Oxford. Albert comes from the "Little Dixie" corner of southeastern Oklahoma-a corn, cotton, coal and cattle area bordering on Arkansas and Texas. Albert's father was a shot-firer in a McAlester coal mine, but when Carl, the oldest of five children, was a child, the family moved to a cotton farm near the hamlet of Bug Tussle. * Young Carl went to the two-room Bug Tussle school, then to high school in McAlester (he was the first Bug Tussle pupil ever to progress as far as a high school diploma). He showed an early instinct for politics...
...tough and terse. To wavering Tackle Prospect Steve Wright. Bryant rasped: "Steve, we were considering you, but I think I've changed my mind. You don't have the guts to play for Alabama." Wright begged for a chance to sign. To compete with such entrenched Southeastern powers as Auburn and Mississippi, Bryant upped the ante: he promised first-class meals and travel accommodations, persuaded Alabama officials to enlarge the school's stadium (from 32,000 to 43,000 seats) and build a stereo-equipped dressing room, a swimming pool, and a "hospitality house" for entertaining rookie...
Using the key law, a Louisiana parish could vote to close public schools to prevent integration, then lease or sell the schools to a segregated "private" operation supported by state money. In April, rural St. Helena parish, in southeastern Louisiana, voted 1,147 to 5? to do so. Having ordered St. Helena schools to integrate, the federal court made the case a test of the state law. Being thorough, the court even asked the attorneys general of all 50 states to file briefs on a curiously unsettled question: Does the U.S. Constitution require states to provide public education? Of those...