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...were pleasantly surprised by the friendliness of the people, the lower cost of living and the availability of good housing. Says Westmorland, who was raised in Atlanta: "I fell in love with it all over again." Adds his wife, who had not visited the South since she left Texarkana, Texas, as a child of seven: "I was so impressed with it and liked it so well that I decided this is it." Next month the Westmorlands will move into a three-bedroom, split-level house in Decatur...
Joplin's musical genius was enormous and precocious. He was born in 1868 at Texarkana into a family that took music as its birthright. The father, a laborer, played the violin; the mother sang and picked banjo. Joplin started out on the guitar and bugle, but at age seven discovered the piano and was soon teaching himself to improvise...
Lloyd H. Baillio, who is serving a term in a federal prison in Texarkana, Texas, has filed suit against the U.S. Attorney General, charging that he should be allowed to conduct a normal sex life with a woman of his choice. Denying prisoners the right to sex, the suit charges, is "cruel and unusual punishment... comparable to the Chinese water torture." A federal district judge in New Orleans will decide...
...Ross Perot, 44. "Making money per se never really interested me," insists the clean-cut mule trader's son from Texarkana, Texas, who quit a salesman's job at IBM in 1962, worked briefly as a data processing manager for Blue Cross/Blue Shield, then set up the Dallas computer software firm of Electronic Data Systems with $1,000. By 1970 his assets had soared to as much as $1.5 billion. He promptly took an oceanic bath as the computer market went stale (in a single day the value of his stocks dropped $376 million), next scuttled tens...
COLLINS HAS SPENT the last sixteen months in the federal penitentiary in Texarkana, Texas. Convicted of five concurrent maximum sentences of five years and a $2,000 fine on November...