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Paxton is probably more known for his basketball skill back in Paducah, where in his senior year at Paducah St. Mary's High School he was captain of both the basketball and the golf team. "Paducah" held his own playing pick-up with University of Kentucky sharpshooter Jack "Goose" Givens when both were in high school, Paxton met Givens, who comes from Lexington, Kentucky, when both attended a model state legislature...
Once he was a graceful Gold Glove outfielder and .300 hitter for the St. Louis Cardinals, earning $90,000 a year. But when the Cardinals tried to trade Curt Flood to the Philadelphia Phillies in 1969, he filed a suit challenging baseball's reserve system. Said he: "I am a man, not a consignment of goods to be bought and sold." The Supreme Court upheld the reserve system, and an angry Flood quit baseball, drifting around the world, tending his own bar on the Spanish island of Majorca and painting portraits for $350 and up. Now that baseball players...
Later expanding on his philosophy, Eklund points to all the millions that his company has invested in the central cities in Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Detroit and Atlanta. Yes, it has made a profit, but not always top profit. It has started the country's largest "minority small-business investment company, and Eklund knows that that will...
Kathy Morris, a young voice student at the Manhattan School of Music, developed a meningioma, a benign tumor on the surface of her left temporal lobe; to remove it, her neurosurgeon thought, would be a morning's easy routine in St. Luke's Hospital in New York City. But when the surgeon set to work, opening the skull and cutting for the growth, the girl's brain turned into a monster, swelling uncontrollably. Angry and desperate, the surgeon eventually closed her incision, certain that the patient would soon die. But for reasons as inexplicable as its rampage...
...jazz band, clowns and belly dancers. In New York City, where the celebration was organized by Robert Redford's wife Lola, about 500 people at the United Nations Plaza droned an appropriate mantra at dawn: "Sun-nun-nun-nua ..." In Greenwich Village, eighth-grade students from St. Luke's School cooked chocolate-chip cookies and hot dogs on solar grills; at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the Omega Liturgical Dance Company re-enacted a Renaissance ceremony in which a ball symbolizing the sun is passed between priests and dancers...