Word: texan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Erwin chucked when the group demanded his resignation. He ignored a similar demand by the Daily Texan. He also chuckled when the football-minded Texas-Exes gave him the "Distinguished Axe" award and a little poem that ended with "only Frank can kill a tree." By now everybody was mad at Erwin- the tree people and others who already resented the fact that he eliminated PEO. (PEO was a very successful program for admitting and funding a few highly motivated students from minority group- which counting blacks, Mexican-Americans, and Indians, make up 46 per cent of the state...
...deal may actually be legitimate, but everybody has doubts about it. Erwin isn't the sort to sponsor a Geriatrics Center out of sheer goodness: (The center has never been built, and the land is still in his possession.) Anyway, Erwin's last statement to the Daily Texan was: "I'm not going to talk...
...park was the brainchild of Walter Wilson. a white former Texan who is now a successful Berkshire real estate dealer. Wilson purchased the DuBois property several years ago, not knowing its former owners. When he discovered it to be the DuBois family homesite. Wilson contacted Edmund Gordon. chairman of the guidance department at Columbia University Teachers College. Together the two drew up plans to make the idea of a memorial park a reality...
...Cover: Oil on canvas by Manuel Gregorio Acosta, 48, a Mexican-born Texan and onetime protege of Peter Hurd and Andrew Wyeth, who makes his first appearance in TIME...
...shop near Sheffield four years ago to practice the dying art of hand-forging iron, he whimsically wrote to an American pal: "I can make anything from lamps to chastity belts." The pal promptly responded with an order for a hand-forged chastity belt from an anonymous Texan. Well, why not? Renwick found a design in a public library, forged a replica-and immediately received orders for 40 more...