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DIED. Ernest Tubb, 70, the "Texas Troubadour," pioneer of honky-tonk country music and pillar of Nashville's Grand Ole Opry since 1943, whose many hits included I'm Walking the Floor Over You, Waltz Across Texas and Tomorrow Never Comes; of emphysema; in Nashville...
...five following Harvard professors, all recently named by Bok to chair their respective departments for a period of three years effective July 1. Department chairman is a time-consuming administrative task at Harvard that rotates among department members. The unlucky five this time around are: Assistant Professor Gary A. Tubb (the incumbent in Sanskrit and Indian Studies); Professor Warren D. Goldfarb (Philosophy); Professor of Arabic Wolfhart P. Heinrichs (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations); Professor Stanley J. Tambiah (Anthropology); and Professor Sheldon H. White (Psychology and Social Relations...
...sprawling campus of the Air Force Academy at the foothills of the Colorado Rockies, the cadets savor their new status. Says David Tubb, 19, a freshman from Viroqua, Wis.: "My friends are envious. They think I've got a lot going for me." Agrees Classmate Richard Kobor, 18, of Syracuse: "Everyone looks up to you. People call you sir. The military...
...truckers and dirt farmers on a night out. But it's just a row of dirty book stores and porno booths, privacy ensured, and the old auditorium, Ryman's, which used to be the Grand Ole Opry in better days, looks like a church turned bingo hall. The Ernest Tubb Record Store is only a dingy Woolworth's--lines of cheap cowboy boots and tumbled boxes of western shirts, old George Wallace Speaks records, trick glasses that look like they're full of beer but when you pretend to spill it on someone the beer stays in because there...
Across the street, was the answer, right next to Ernest Tubb's music shop. As Nick and I crossed the cracked pavement in this fast-crumbling section of town, with the heart, the old Opry building, cut right out of it and transplanted into the wide open spaces of chain motels and highway interchanges--transmogrified into another exhibit in a Disney vision of Country Muzak land--we saw the lights of a glowing juke joint called the Wheel...