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There seemed to be scarcely any black Americans, even ones who thought they were well versed in their race's history, who did not come away from their TVs shaken to the core by Roots. Said Aurora Jackson, a social worker in Chicago: "It's one thing to read about this, and another thing to see it. My concept of slavery was always intellectual. For the first time, I really felt I had a picture of how horrible life...
...freeze of the waterways aggravated the region's fuel crisis. For a time, Cincinnati Gas and Electric Co. had 3 million gal. of fuel oil stalled on the Mississippi, 400,000 gal. blocked on the Ohio near Aurora, Ind., and another 400,000 gal. stuck in the river near Paducah, Ky. Electric utilities sent out crews armed with hammers and iron bars to smash the frozen coal loose from rail cars. "It's absolutely miserable work," said Detroit Edison Co. Vice President Walter J. McCarthy Jr. Strapped for fuel, his firm at one point was turning out only...
WELLS COLLEGE (515 women; Aurora, N.Y.). At the 1972 Democratic Convention, Frances Tarlton ("Sissy") Farenthold, fresh from a defeat in the Texas gubernatorial primary, was nominated for the vice-presidential slot on the McGovern ticket in a symbolic gesture by the Women's Caucus. Her being chosen as the first female of Wells' thirteen presidents, however, was anything but symbolic. The school, which has a modest endowment of $8 million, needed someone of note to help boost sagging enrollment. On the job since March, Farenthold, 49, has made this fall's entering class the largest...
...TriStar jets also in hand, Lockheed has managed to borrow the $50 million needed to cover reduced startup costs. The Canadian government accepted a later delivery schedule (the first plane will arrive in May 1980) and less instrumentation on board the aircraft, which in Canada will be called the Aurora. Lockheed also agreed to place with Canadian firms $414.6 million in subcontracting work (not all of it connected with the Aurora) and to transfer to Canada the production of $168 million worth of components for other Lockheed customers...
...Tennessean in 1969 as a copy editor but left a year later because her husband, S.H. Srouji, a state highway engineer, did not like her working at night. A year and a half ago, she sold two articles about the nuclear safety controversy to Nashville! magazine. It was when Aurora asked her to write a book on the subject that she reestablished her contact with Olson, now assigned to the FBI's Oklahoma City office, where he helped conduct the bureau's Silkwood investigation. Over a two-month period, Srouji testified, she was allowed to photocopy bureau summaries...