Word: alabamas
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DIED. HENRY GRAHAM, 82, even-keeled former National Guard general who helped control some of the country's most explosive civil rights battles; of Parkinson's disease; in Birmingham, Ala. On June 11, 1963, Graham told George Wallace to step aside when the Alabama Governor stood in the entrance to a University of Alabama building, trying to prevent the school's desegregation (see Eulogy...
...summer afternoon in June 1963, a small-statured military man knocked at my dormitory door at the University of Alabama. He announced himself to be HENRY GRAHAM. After a brief introduction--he was the National Guard general who had paved the way for me to walk past Governor George Wallace earlier that day, thus desegregating the university--he said in his polished and militaristic style, "I just came by to see who it was that had brought me down here to this hot-as-hell, God-awful place because he or she wanted to go to school." He said...
...problem is, McEwan wasn't the first to invent the technology--if he invented it at all. It was first patented in 1987 by LARRY FULLERTON, founder of Alabama-based Time Domain Corp., and featured at a 1990 Los Alamos meeting attended by McEwan and his Livermore associates. In response to a Time Domain challenge, the U.S. Patent Office has initially rejected Livermore's key patents. Next month the House Science Committee will release a report that, sources tell TIME, will cite more cases of intellectual-property infringement committed by the weapons-making labs as they scrambled to find...
Harvard's biggest problem of the tournament first showed up in its dual meet against Virginia Commonwealth University prior to the trip to Alabama...
...Crimson defeated Boise State 4-1 on the opening day of the Classic, but fell to a streaking No. 37 Virginia one day later. Virginia had upset No. 28 Alabama before defeating Harvard, and eventually fell to No. 5 SMU in the semifinals...