Word: catawba
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...Earl Ruth, 59, Governor of American Samoa at $45,000 a year. A three-term Representative from North Carolina who calls himself a "country boy," Ruth has never been to Samoa. But he is sure his experience as dean of students at Catawba College in his home state will help him supervise the 28,000 Polynesians in his jurisdiction. He plans to be "firm but at the same time give the people all the leeway possible...
...Buckley comes by his minority party seat through inherited establishment tilting: his Catholic grandfather was once a sheep rancher in Baptist cattle-ranching country in Texas. The family fortune was eventually made in oil, and James Buckley has spent most of his business life with the family firm, the Catawba Corp., which provides expert help in oil and mineral exploration. A lawyer and vice president of the firm, he has traveled extensively on company business...
...Yale graduate, Jim is vice president of the family's Catawba Corp., a firm providing expertise for companies engaged in oil and mineral exploration. He first entered politics as campaign manager during Bill's quixotic run against Lindsay for the New York mayoralty in 1965. Bill recalls that when Jim accepted the Conservatives' senatorial nomination in 1968, "his knees were shaking as he read the prepared text. He reminded me afterward that that was the first time he's spoken in public in 17 years-since he spoke before the ornithological club of Millbrook...
...years ago, but it is St. Somebody's; its topography is drawn in Cheever's mind. As such, it has become one of the great home towns of American fiction, like Mark Twain's Hannibal, Mo., or Thomas Wolfe's Altamont, in the state of Catawba. Like Altamont, St. Botolphs, Mass., may be found not in a state of the Union but in a state of mind. In its New England fashion, St. Botolphs is as much an in carnation of the demonology of history as Faulkner's Jefferson, Miss., where the living deal with...
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