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When the corps inspected 252 Georgia dams after the Toccoa disaster, it placed 73.4% of them in the unsafe category. More than half of the 809 privately owned dams in five Southern states (Alabama, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina) also were declared to be unsafe. The corps is now studying six badly deteriorated dams near Columbia, S.C. If just one of them should fail, state engineers say, hundreds of people could drown...
Many of the ornaments came in the form of amendments to the continuing-spending resolution and gas-tax bill. Senator Howell Heflin, an Alabama Democrat, tucked in a $1 million appropriation for channel-widening at the Franklin Ferry Bridge in his home state. John Melcher, Democratic Senator from Montana, hooked a $243,000 fish hatchery for his, and Louisiana Senator Russell Long pushed through a $5 million cloverleaf project outside Baton Rouge Even Senator William Proxmire, the Wisconsin Democrat, famed for his "Golden Fleece" awards for Government waste, rammed through a $1.5 million poverty-studies program at the University...
...could make that stick), Bryant was influenced by the recruits he had been losing in growing numbers, as more and more mothers sought to know exactly how long he would be around to smile on their sons. A year ago, perhaps the three leading prospects in the state of Alabama all chose Auburn, and one of them scored the touchdown that brought the Tigers their first victory over the Tide in ten years...
That 23-22 loss goes down on the ledger as the last regular-season game in Bryant's 38 head-coaching years at Maryland, Kentucky, Texas A&M and Alabama...
After the Liberty Bowl on Dec. 29, when Alabama plays Illinois in Memphis, his 322-85-17 record will be amended accordingly and closed. This year the Liberty Bowl will be a major event...