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...Georgia case had its roots in a 1965 voter-registration drive organized by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Taliaferro County (pronounced "Tolliver" by residents). As part of the campaign, which was sparked by an impassioned speech by Martin Luther King Jr. in the county seat of Crawfordville (pop. 786), black leaders called for desegregation of Taliaferro's two public schools. Murden School (enrollment 600) was all black; the Alexander Stephens Institute (enrollment 203) was all white...
...voted against Nixon all won, some by impressive margins. All of the anti-Nixon Democrats survived, including such Southerners as Alabama's Walter Flowers, South Carolina's James Mann and Arkansas' Ray Thornton. Committee Chairman Peter Rodino's margin in New Jersey over John Taliaferro was an overwhelming...
...from last year's squad. Defenseman and co-captain Charlie Kittredge, who Munro rates "as one of the best lacrosse players in the country," last year repeated his All-American, All-Ivy feats that he first accomplished three seasons ago before taking a year off from school. Senior John Taliaferro and juniors Carter McDowell and Tom Scott will round out the defensive team...
...guaranteed salaries, regular hours and scheduled vacations that characterize full-time ER work. Some are even more attracted by the psychic rewards that emergency medicine offers. "I like the type of medicine where the pathology is often critical and what I do is often crucial," says Dr. Ellen Taliaferro, 33, who helped form a group that provides service to hospitals in Santa Monica and Inglewood, Calif. "It makes me feel very good that I make a difference...
Most emergency physicians share Dr. Taliaferro's feeling. At the same time, they recognize that their profession also has its limitations. "We are specialists in breadth, rather than depth," says Dr. Jerry Hughes, 35, a Viet Nam veteran who serves as director of emergency services at St. Mary's Long Beach Hospital in California. "I may open a patient's chest to massage his heart, but it's the cardiac surgeon who is going to put in the plastic aorta. Our job is to keep the patient alive...