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...first-year, when Benjamin T. Jackson ’03 wondered why his parents, Isaiah Jackson ’66 and Helen T. Jackson, had not made advance hotel reservations for his graduation, they initially mentioned the possibility of relocating to Boston...
Heath says Law was the only white student in his high school class, and that when he was ordained a priest in Natchez-Jackson, Miss. in 1961, he was heavily involved in the Civil Rights movement there, fighting for the rights of blacks...
...worth, was manager Billy Martin, a man who once took pitcher Goose Gossage aside--before a spring-training game in which he would face a black player--and told him, "I want you to drill the little n_____ in the head." Meanwhile the team's slugger was Reggie Jackson, an emerging black superstar who the previous year had hit four home runs in the World Series with four successive swings of his bat. The irrepressible Jackson, who had an IQ of 160 and quoted Frost fluently from behind his mirror shades, is the book's hilarious, hyperverbal hero. He once...
Doing flexible assembly well is a lot tougher and, initially, more expensive than it may sound. Of the $1.5 billion Nissan has invested in its new plant in Canton, Miss., just north of Jackson, about a third went into making the operation as flexible as possible. At full capacity, the Canton plant can produce 400,000 vehicles a year, including sedans, minivans, SUVs and pickups...
...Staff writer Timothy Jackson can be reached at jackson2@fas.harvard.edu...