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This article was written collectively by the following members of Mobilization for Survival: Jim Garrison, a Ph.D. candidate at the Divinity School; Geoff Bernstein '80; Sybil Highes '81; Geoff Wisner '80; Paige Tolbert '79; Joan Lancourt; and Kathi Matthews...
...sexy female names include Candy, Beverly, Loretta, Dawn, Marjorie, Adrienne and Joanne. Sybil is intelligent, Amanda is cultured and Zelda is aggressive, perhaps because of that grating z sound. Sally connotes blonde and sassy -Andersen is not sure why, but suggests that Fan Dancer Sally Rand, Actress Sally Struthers and Journalist Sally Quinn might have helped shape the image...
Before he achieved celebrity status, Billy was a homebody whose idea of distant places was an occasional vacation in Florida's Walt Disney World with Sybil and the six kids (ages five months to 20 years). Now he travels as much to get out of Plains as to garner honorariums. Says Billy: "Hell, Plains is turning into a three-ring circus." So much so that Billy has been all but driven from his familiar haunts: a discarded school bus seat blocks access to the back room of the famous service station where he quaffs his afternoon beers, and nobody...
...ever a Briton was born and bred for success, it was Eden. The third son of Sybil and Sir William Eden, a country gentleman and master of hounds, Anthony Eden had a perfect pedigree for membership in the British ruling class: Sandroyd Preparatory School, Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, where he won first-class honors in Persian and Arabic and pulled a respectable oar. Before entering Oxford, young Anthony saw action in France with the King's Royal Rifle Corps during the first World War; at the age of 20 he became a brigade major...
...Wife Sybil, 38, to whom Billy has been married for 21 years, disputes his un-Christian image. "What nobody knows is that if Billy wants to go to church, he'll go to Americus [ten miles away] and go to church, and nobody knows anything about it." Billy is also a family man; the beer hour never prevents him from sitting down to dinner with Sybil and their six children, who range in age from three months to 20 years. He is also a bang-up businessman, who in the past six years has raised the gross...