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...order of things, the feudal inevitabilities, can be changed, with endurance. The Old South was always saying No! in thunder, and Virginia had a gift of eloquent defiance. In 1959, rather than submit to federal court orders to merge their two public school systems (black and white), the supervisors of Prince Edward County closed them down, and then kept them closed for five years. It was an extension of "massive resistance," the last stand of states' rights. The position was argued in high legalisms. But in deeper truth, Senator Harry F. Byrd Sr. and other leaders of white Virginia were...
...Name P Cl Hometown 1 Michael Francis G JR Braintree, MA 3 Brian Popiel D SR Thunder Bay, ONT 5 Kevan Melrose D SR Red Deer, ALB 6 Ted Donato F JR Dedham, MA 7 Rich DeFreitas D SO Manchester, NH 9 Matt Mallgrave F FR Silver Spring, MD 11 John Weisbrod F JR Woodbury, NY 12 Steven Flomenhoft F FR Riverwoods, IL 14 C.J. Young F SR Waban, MA 17 Peter Ciavaglia F JR Buffalo, NY 18 Ted Drury F FR Trumbull, CT 19 Tim Burke F SO Wellesley, MA 21 Kevin Sneddon D SO Burlington, ONT 22 Brian...
After graduating from Harvard, White went to cover the war in China for Time magazine and other publications. From his years in China he produced the controversial book, Thunder Out of China, on the Chinese Nationalist government...
...high-spirited spectators in Candlestick Park were at first either confused or nonchalant. Both teams had finished batting practice. Then a soft, distant rumble grew louder. "It sounded like rolling thunder," said Peter Rubens, a winery manager seated in the right-field lower deck. The stadium shuddered. Light towers swayed. The foul-line poles in left and right field whipped back and forth. Though expansion joints at the top of the stadium absorbed the blow, chunks of concrete fell off, precisely as planned. One dangerous block crashed into a seat in Section 53. Only a moment before, its occupant...
...last week, Honda was the first Japanese carmaker to be inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame, where his name will join those of Henry Ford and Walter P. Chrysler. "As I stand here, it feels as if I am standing on a cloud," said Kaminari-san, or Mr. Thunder, as he is known to his workers. His company has put 1.4 million American-made Hondas on the road and sold 5.1 million imports since 1970. Said he: "I found doing business here much easier than in Japan. Our company in Ohio has been so well accepted that I believe...