Word: carolina
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just carrying out orders. The boy I knew respected his parents. He listened to what they said. He was a very reserved, quiet boy and very cooperative." Rusty's father, a Navy veteran, sold heavy construction equipment, and business was good. The Calleys had a vacation house in North Carolina, and in high school Rusty had his own car. He was too small for varsity sports ?even now he stands only 5 ft. 3 in. and weighs 130 Ibs.?but he spent a good deal of time at sandlot football, water-skiing and skin diving...
During this time, Calley's father's business was slowing down and his mother became mortally ill with cancer. The father, a diabetic whose health was also failing, was forced to sell the family house in Miami and move to the North Carolina cabin. Rusty stayed on in Florida. Once he and Chuck Queen flew up to visit the Calleys. "He was upset about it," Queen recalls. "It was a bad situation, but Rusty kept it within him." Young Calley always seemed calm and even-tempered. "I can't ever remember him getting mad," says Rick Smith. "He never...
...with the colored people in the South. Now other groups are taking to the streets. We could have worked out the integration battle without allowing them to march. My family worked for everything we had. We even have a deed from the King of England for property in South Carolina. Now these jerks come along and try to give it to the Communists...
Camellias. The courtly scion of four generations of South Carolina lawyers, who grows camellias for a hobby, Haynsworth had little stomach for the fight. He received the news of his rejection in his characteristically quiet manner, and with some relief: "The ordeal of the past two months has ended," he said afterward. Haynsworth said he was going to consider if he should resign his present judgeship...
...Arkansas, California, Colorado, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, and most recently, Delaware have adopted liberalized abortion laws. But generally hospitals refuse out-of-state patients to avoid becoming abortion meccas...