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DIED. HUGH GLOSTER, 90, longtime president of Morehouse College who oversaw the historically black school's rapid expansion in the key post-civil rights era; in Decatur, Ga. In his 19-year tenure, enrollment and faculty doubled...
...cast my vote for Elvis Presley. the late John Lennon reportedly said: "Without Elvis there would be no Beatles." FRANCES M. GLOSTER Springfield, Mass...
...most powerful law firms, law schools and government offices. More immediately, there is the exhilaration of the post itself. "It's a very heady feeling for a 24-year-old to be arguing with a Supreme Court Justice about what constitutional law should be," says San Francisco lawyer Dean Gloster, who clerked for Justice Byron White, himself a former clerk. The possibility always exists of placing one's thumbprint on the jurisprudence of the nation...
Dahl, 6 ft., 6 in. tall, then found himself cramped in the cockpit of a Tiger Moth in Nairobi, Kenya, where he had enlisted in the R.A.F. After training, he was given an unfamiliar Gloster Gladiator and wrong directions to fly to a base in the Libyan Desert. He ran out of gas, crashed and spent six months recovering in Egypt. By the time he got back in the air, this time in a spiffy new Hurricane over Greece, the Luftwaffe dominated the skies. Dahl piloted one of a dozen planes sent up to meet some 200 enemy aircraft...
...Waffle House coffeeshop on Gloster Street, Jerry Rice groans, "I think there're a lot of people like me who just can't believe these guys are still running around in sheets. This is 1978." Walter Christian, a local insurance man, grumbles, "Why did they pick Saturday, anyway? Saturday is our busiest shopping day." Most people have a deeper fear. They are pretty sure there will be a shooting. "Life is cheaper down here than in the North," says Mel Blatt, who migrated to Mississippi from New York a few years back. "You don't have...