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Alabama schools are desperately underfunded because Alabama has the lowest property tax in the country and "would have to increase it by 66 per cent even to tie for 49th," Lazar says...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: From LSATs to Alabama | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

...somehow, the older, tamer forests of the Berkshires and the Adirondacks suit McPhee better than the wild barren extremities of the 49th state, America's last frontier. McPhee is too much the Princetonian descendant of the painstaking Yankee silversmith. He crafts nice pieces for nice people to read in their nice New Yorkers when they're through looking at the cartoons, inferring polite, understated meanings with a precise style and weightless control. But one knows his Alaska is an idealized one to read about in front of the fire on a cold Greenwich, Conn. night accompanied by 12-year...

Author: By Francis MARK Muro, | Title: The Ragged Edge | 11/7/1980 | See Source »

John D. Kely, the 73-year old marathon celebrity who finished his 49th race this year, said yesterday he agrees with the accusations against Ruiz...

Author: By Douglas L. Tweedale, | Title: Marathoners Question Woman's Finish | 4/23/1980 | See Source »

Landrieu, who celebrated his 49th birthday last week, lives in an unpretentious house in the racially mixed neighborhood where he was raised in the rear of his parents' grocery store. Once again, he has been doing a little door-to-door campaigning. This time it is for his daughter Mary, at 23 the oldest of his nine children (all of their names begin with the letter M; his own name was Maurice before he changed it to Moon). She is running for her father's old seat in the state legislature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Boisterous Builder for HUD | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

...Peter J. Gomes will lead a service at 12:10 p.m. in Memorial Church in commemoration of what would have been Martin Luther King Jr.'s 49th birthday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Service Honors King's Birthday | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

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