Word: alabama
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...NAMES ARE SIMILAR: Crimson and Crimson Tide. Toss out the detergent and they are the same. By reputation, the two are a pair of the nation's foremost institutions--in the classroom it's Harvard, on the gridiron Alabama...
...something's up in the Bear's backyard. Alabama President Joab L. Thomas '55, who holds three Harvard degrees, established new standards for his school's football program in announcing the appointment of Bill Curry as head coach. Thomas hired Curry for three reasons: first, personal integrity; second, a commitment to improving the academic performance of his players; and third--and last--desire...
These are not new words from a university president announcing the appointment of a new coach. Stressing the importance of academic achievement at a press conference is easy, but Thomas has made a commitment to improved education at Alabama with higher admission standards, the introduction of a core curriculum and a recruiting program--not for football prospects, but for better faculty...
This year Harvard defeated Duke, the Universityof Southern Alabama, Minnesota, Akron, UNPHU fromthe Dominican Republic, and the University ofCalifornia at Berkeley. However, the defendingchampion, Rhode Island College, beat Harvard...
...portrait of Hall that began to emerge was of a troubled loner with a Rambo complex that has earned him the nickname Sambo. "In his imagination he was going to be Rambo, but it backfired in his face," says Thomas Posey, director of Civilian Materiel Assistance (C.M.A.), an Alabama-based paramilitary group that expelled Hall 15 months ago after he pressed the group to broaden its anti-Communist activities. Adds a U.S. official: "Hall really thought he could just walk into the bush and blast Commies...