Word: texan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also find support for the story in some things not in Witcover's book. It is known that Connally was outraged at the Democratic Convention when Humphrey agreed to drop the unit rule for delegate voting, a source of power for Connally, and would not even consider the Texan for a running mate. Connally and Allan Shivers, also a former Texas Governor and like Connally a conservative, were planning to go on television shortly before the election to announce their support of Nixon. They changed their minds at about the same time that Connally, according to Witcover, was changing...
...Texas newspaper, he editorially accused the Governor and state legislators of collusion with oil and gas interests. He was asked to resign, but refused. The university countered by appointing a faculty supervisor for the paper. The next day Morris wrote that the appointee would "bring to the Daily Texan ... the sensitivity of high salary and position...
...that cars go out to qualify is decided by lot, and Ruby had drawn a number well down on the list. The rains came late in the afternoon, and Ruby never had a chance to qualify his red, white and blue machine. So Lloyd Ruby, a stocky middle aged Texan, prone to one syllable replies, shifted uncomfortably under his Stetson, and looked off camera...
...that it's that time again. More convincing is the fact that Foyt's crew, headed up by his father, had everything so well in hand that they were able to qualify four cars for the race, including one on the very last day, for fellow Texan Jim McElreath, whose original car had been bumped from the field by a faster qualifier. On top of this , Foyt just happens to be the distributor for the turbocharged Ford V8 racing engines that two thirds of this year's qualifiers are using. When he was first awarded the franchise last fall...
Shrinking Supertown. Yet Barthelme remains himself, with a clear, private antilogic running through almost all his stories. As a Texan transplanted to New York, his working premise seems to be that everything in the world of supertown is so oversize and so shrill that no one notices any of it. Mass anesthesia is the result. His remedy: to shrink life to the miniature so that the reader is obliged to bend and squint to see the madness, perfectly proportioned to a bizarre cameo...