Word: southernism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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OUTER DARK, by Cormac McCarthy. A Southern gothic novel about a backwoods brother and sister, their abandoned child, and three archetypal murderers...
...House, where the Democrats have retained control of 27 state delegations. At the same time, the Senate meets to name a Vice President. There, the Democrats have retained control, 53 to 47. The rules eliminate the No. 3 candidate: out goes Curtis LeMay, the Wallace running mate. And enough Southern Democrats follow party discipline to elect Edmund Muskie as Vice President. In the House, however, all three presidential candidates are eligible. Southern Democrats, enraged by Humphrey's attacks on Wallace during the bitter campaign, refuse to fall in behind the Minnesotan. Some cross party lines to vote for Nixon...
Though the college football season is barely under way, the experts are already excited about the expected climax. The date Jan. 1, 1969. The place: the Rose Bowl, in Pasadena, Calif. The teams: Purdue (probable champions of the Big Ten) and Southern California (favorites to lead the Pacific Eight conference). That game, if it does take place, will probably decide the national championship. But the real drama will lie in the competition between the two most colorful players in college football: Purdue's Leroy Keyes, 21, and Southern Cal's Orenthal James Simpson...
...anything, Southern Cal's O.J. Simpson boasts even more dramatic statistics. Molded in the slums of San Francisco's Portrero Hill district, he was unheralded until he turned up at the City College of San Francisco, where in two years he scored a grand total of 54 touchdowns. He went to Southern Cal last year as a junior, and he wasted no time. In an awesome display of speed and power, O.J. led the country in rushing (with 1,415 yds. in 266 carries), scored both touchdowns in the Trojans' 14-3 victory over Indiana...
Among urban cognoscenti, Los Angeles has long been an object of scorn. Many critics for years ridiculed the sprawling metropolis as a gaggle of suburbs "in search of a city." They had a point. The core of the city not only failed to share in Southern California's explosive postwar growth but developed ominous symptoms of decay. Though downtown Los Angeles remained a stronghold for banking, finance, oil and insurance, jobs in other fields followed people to the suburbs. Vacancy rates soared in dingy old office buildings. Sleazy stores and bad restaurants proliferated. Forsaken by many retailers, streets that...