Word: alabama
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Last week Wallace's wheelchair was pushed into the old state house of representatives chamber. Fighting tears, Wallace spoke in a thin, pained voice. He talked about the Wallace era, about the long transit that Alabama made from the Depression to the Sunbelt. Wallace glancingly compared himself to Peter the Great and the apostle Paul. He announced that, at age 66, he will not run again for Governor. The long drama of his career will end. And so, symbolically, will...
...team then travelled south, where it competed in the Blue-Gray Classic in Birmingham, Alabama. Harvard finished 10th in a strong field which included Southern Methodist University--the eventual champion--and USC, both ranked among the top five college teams in the nation...
...real wild card in the French parliamentary election is Jean-Marie Le Pen, 57, a far-rightist. Le Pen has capitalized on France's xenophobia, waging a crusade that resembles in some of its substance and style the U.S. campaigns of Alabama Governor George Wallace during the 1960s. Le Pen and his National Front charge that France's 4.2 million immigrants are responsible for high unemployment and a high crime rate. Hidden just below the surface is veiled racism against immigrants. Le Pen has been charged with taking part in torture sessions while serving as a paratrooper in Algeria...
Television might be a more dangerous medium if its fondness for violent action always produced a hot response in its watchers. Sometimes it does: the picture of police dogs in Alabama changed history. But repeated scenes of snipers ducking around doorways in Belfast eventually generate a feeling that this is an interminable quarrel. The endless car bombings in Beirut, the sight of young armed soldiers, arouse the feeling that we just do not belong in Lebanon...
...would block the merger. The firm managed to get the bill through the House by using a little-known procedural rule at a late-night session. In the Senate, however, Mobil--represented by former Carter Aide Stuart Eizenstat--was able to stop the bill when Senator Howell Heflin of Alabama blocked consideration on the Senate floor. Heflin is a friend of Mobil Chairman Rawleigh Warner...