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...country where "friends" are encouraged to rat on their pals, where body wires are used to gather information about someone else's sex life and where FBI agents bully naive people and rummage through their personal belongings. This is the stuff of totalitarian regimes. KAY VINSON Germantown, Tenn...
Sometime in the 1960s Harry Caray found himself in Memphis, Tenn. The phone rang in his hotel room. "Harry," the voice said, "this is Elvis Presley. I grew up in Mississippi listening to you call the Cardinal games on KMOX. I think you're the greatest. I'm sending a car over to bring you to Graceland." There, by Caray's account, the two sat till the early-morning hours, eating barbecue, drinking Budweiser and talking baseball...
...chickens in Hong Kong--widely derided at the time--was in fact the smartest thing that could be done and that it might have prevented a more widespread disaster. "The question is," says Robert Webster, chairman of the virology department at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., and a key actor in the quiet drama played out in Hong Kong, "did they close the stable door before or after the horses had gone...
...bill, Senate 1601, was sponsored by Sens. Kit Bond (R-Mont.), Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) and Judd Gregg...
DIED. CARL PERKINS, 65, Big Daddy of rockabilly; after a series of strokes; in Jackson, Tenn. Blue Suede Shoes, his anthem to teenage vanity nearly became his requiem when, as he was en route to a key national-TV performance in 1956, a car crash hobbled him and his career. Drinking binges followed, but so did songs--Honey Don't, Matchbox--that helped teach the Beatles rock 'n' roll...