Word: tarheel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crown has been collecting rust on the East and West coasts for too damn long. The Atlantic Coast Conference fluked its way to national attention last March behind the improbable coaching of Norm Sloane and the big-city talents in-his North Carolina State roster. The Wolfpack, with their Tarheel and Terrapin brethren from Chapel Hill and College Park, returned to more plausible post-season performances this go round; they all lost...
Luther H. Hodges Jr., 37, is the son of a former Governor of North Carolina, and political observers in the Tarheel State expect him to launch his own bid for the statehouse before the decade is out. Hard-driving and talented, Hodges is chairman of the North Carolina National Bank, which he has helped propel from 65th to 25th largest in the U.S. (assets: $2.7 billion) in the last 14 years. A Phi Beta Kappa from the University of North Carolina and a Harvard Business School graduate, Hodges has never held a public elective office, but he has been active...