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...appear on local newscasts in a variety of primary and caucus states. But even with the aid of such global-village campaigning, Gephardt fell victim to the disorientation of life on the fly. A pesky interviewer wondered where Gephardt was broadcasting from. Unfortunately, the candidate's initial guess (Waco, Texas) was off by 90 miles; Gephardt was in fact in Austin...
...splits into two identically numbered segments, differentiated by a tiny W and E, which run north and south. Lulled by interstate monotony, the unwary sometimes fail to notice the split, and circle the city on the 35s and their various permutations until they give up and opt for Waco. That furnishes the underpinning for the legend of the ghost of I-35. It is said in Western truck stops that once a young couple with a small child (some versions claim twin children) circled Dallas in July until their auto air conditioner failed and they died, and that on still...
...Wade Morrison worked as a pharmacist at a drugstore in Rural Retreat, Va. He fell in love with the daughter of the store's proprietor, Charles Pepper, who was a physician. When the doctor discovered the romance, he put a halt to it. Morrison then fled to Waco, Texas, where he opened his own drugstore. It was there that Charles Alderton, who worked for Morrison, invented a tasty soft drink made from 23 flavors. Morrison, apparently still hoping to curry favor with his beloved's father, named the new pop Dr Pepper. It become one of the most popular thirst...
...1970s, when a group of Houston youths were taught such modern approaches to the Bible at Baptist Baylor University in Waco, Texas, they returned home and reported the information to Paul Pressler, their former Sunday school teacher. Pressler, a state appeals court judge, who is a cum laude Princeton alumnus and former state legislator, subsequently urged fellow conservatives to work toward electing a series of tough S.B.C. presidents. His notion: the conservative presidents would make appointments that would turn around the schools and the huge S.B.C. publishing house. Criswell's associate pastor, Paige Patterson, became Pressler's partner...
...Richards is still inspiring. A onetime minister, he earns his living on the motivational lecture circuit (and last year ran for President on the Populist Party ticket). Now the only man ever to take the Olympic pole-vaulting gold twice (1952, 1956) is back on the track in Waco, Texas, preparing for the World Veteran Games in Rome later this year. "I'm training like I've never trained before," says Richards, who turned 59 last week. "I want to get off a 13- to 14-ft. vault." After years of using rigid steel poles, Richards must adjust his skills...