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Coldly Furious. The son of a South Carolina dirt farmer, Rivers was eight when his father died, and he knew poverty in his childhood. Rivers and his wife Margaret, parents of a son and two daughters, lived simply, maintaining a small brick house in McLean, Va., and a modest home in Charleston. For all his love of arms, Rivers never served in uniform. As he admitted, "I don't know squads-left from squads-right...
...surprised at my own feeling of loss," Franklin L. Ford, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, said yesterday. "I didn't agree with a lot of the specific things he did, but I feel that he was the last of the old-time leaders...
...truck driver, I was interested in your article, "A Song of the Open Road, 1970" [Sept. 14]. I will make it a point never to stop at the Dixie Truckers Home at McLean, Ill, because of the remarks made about truckers by Mr. John Geske. The $18,000 to $20,000 a year figure is more or less correct, but here is what it takes to earn that kind of money. A trucker is away from home sometimes for weeks, often driving trucks that are furnaces in summer and freezing in winter. A good percentage of truck drivers have chronic...
...continued teaching as McLean Professor of American and Modern History even while serving as Dean...
...monotonous routine of the road, a break is as welcome to the trucker as it is to any family of tourists jammed into their station wagon. Gregory shifted down and pulled into the Dixie Truckers Home at McLean, a huge truck stop even for the big roads of the Midwest. Outside the Dixie, cattle on the way to market kicked the sides of their trailers, horses neighed, hogs squealed. Dust and diesel fumes mixed with the sweet prairie air and the scent of frying bacon spewing from the kitchen exhaust fans. On U.S. 66 in Illinois, the truck stops have...