Word: tennes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fryers in Noah Blevins' hen house woke up one morning recently to find a 10-ft. flame roaring up out of the barnyard. It was a "burn-off." Like a dozen or so other small farmers around Oneida, Tenn. (pop. 3,500), Blevins had just struck oil. Before long, the chicken coops took second place to storage tanks as the dominant topography on the Blevins farm. The biggest oil boom in the state's history has brought prosperity to rural Scott County on the Cumberland Plateau of eastern Tennessee...
...part of their rock-group image, Michael Jackson and Barry Barnes wore long hair, sideburns and mustaches. Authorities at their Nashville, Tenn., high school did not dig the getup and suspended the boys. Arguing that the hair was necessary to their musical careers and in any case was protected by the First Amendment's free-speech guarantee, Jackson and Barnes went to court. But neither trial nor appeals judges were turned on by the musicians' plaint. Last week the Supreme Court also turned a deaf ear; so the school's long-hair ban stands. Four months...
...grades and the second school handles senior classes-usually results in the absorption of the black schools by the white, eliminating not only the black institutions but their records of athletic and scholastic achievement. Some blacks fear studying under white teachers. "They grade differently," says Tanya Puckett, a Nashville, Tenn., senior. "Negro teachers will skip over a chapter and not hold you responsible for it. With white teachers, if you miss a test, that's it. I'm afraid I might not graduate." Whites taking over a previously black school in Thibodaux, La., promptly painted over murals that...
Fighting the Enemy. The committee leaders themselves have close ties to President Nixon. Graham is a personal friend, and it was during his recent Knoxville, Tenn., crusade that Nixon made one of the few public speeches of his presidency. The rally's executive chairman was Hotelman J. Willard Marriott, also a close friend, who arranged Nixon's inaugural ceremonies and who employs Nixon's brother Donald as a vice president of the Marriott Corp. Marriott, in a press conference held before the rally, returned often, if indirectly, to the country's inner divisions...
Vanderbilt University Nashville, Tenn...