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...years ago this week, the campus of the University of Mississippi was shattered by riots protesting the admission of the first black student. TIME asked Mississippian Willie Morris, the author (North Toward Home, Terrains of the Heart) and former editor of Harper's magazine, to examine changes at Ole Miss since then...
...Wall Street-Ole!" omits the fact that numbers can be manipulated to represent success or failure. I am not impressed with our economic gurus. They took forever to admit that our country had financial problems, and now, with the slightest "red flag waving," they thump themselves proudly on how all will be well...
...Great Depression-it worked for Ryan and Tatum O'Neal in Paper Moon, why not for Clint Eastwood, 52, and his son Kyle, 14? In Honky Tonk Man, opening at Christmas, Eastwood plays an itinerant musician heading cross country to try for a shot at the Grand Ole Opry. "Kyle plays my nephew in the film," says he. "I demoted him from son, but he's still enjoying it." So apparently is the star. Eastwood plays the piano and guitar, and actually does a little singing in the film. He doesn't blow away as many villains...
...Southerner's Southerner, a good ole boy on a howl whose favorite movie is Gone With the Wind. Yet he lived in Cincinnati until he was nine, headed at 17 to Brown University in the Ivy League to study ancient Greek culture, and has since sailed and socialized with the privileged around the world...
...Boone Pickens was not about to let a little ole economic adversity spoil his plans. A former wildcatter who parlayed a $2,500 grubstake into a worldwide company with holdings stretching at times from Canada to the North Sea, Pickens had been gunning for Cities Service since 1979. His interest was sparked by the company's ownership of upwards of 10.6 million undeveloped acres of U.S. land containing an estimated 287 million bbl. of proven oil reserves as well as 2.7 trillion cu. ft. of natural...