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...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...
This attitude, the product of a scrupulously enforced rule that "the customer must never be embarrassed," has helped make the 80-year-old J.L. Hudson Co. a Detroit legend-and one of the nation's most successful retailers. Though little known outside southeastern Michigan, Hudson's is second only to New York's Macy's among U.S. retailers operating in a single metropolitan area. Hudson's gross last year was $220 million (v. Macy's $517.6 million), its net about $5.5 million. Northland, the Hudson-owned shopping center northwest of Detroit, is the world...
Still there were more delays. Weather reports were coming in from the length of the Southeastern seaboard, and the possibility of cloud cover had to be calculated over and over. Minor mechanical troubles had to be repaired. As the countdown was held and resumed, doctors talked to Shepard and pronounced him the calmest man on the Cape. At T minus 2 minutes (2 minutes before launch), as the sun climbed the eastern sky, the "cherry picker" (a jointed crane capable of plucking the astronaut out of his capsule in case of a prelaunch disaster) backed away. At T minus...