Word: alabamas
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...effort geared up, the Army was eventually cajoled into establishing one flight-training school for black pilots in Tuskegee, Alabama, in 1941. Hundreds of applications flooded in. The blacks who entered the program were a stellar group, with degrees from such top universities as Howard and Northwestern. Their military-aptitude-test scores were so high that white officers suspected cheating and made them take the tests again. Still, only five out of the first 13 trainees survived the rigorous course and the corrosive racism of some white flight instructors. Former Detroit Mayor Coleman Young and prominent New York City businessman...
Thirty-two years after he needed the help of the National Guard to get past Governor George Wallace and enroll at the University of Alabama, James Hood, 52, has returned, this time to study for a Ph.D. And to prove he doesn't hold a grudge, Hood plans to ask Wallace--who once pledged to "bar the schoolhouse door" to prevent desegregation--to hand him his diploma, come graduation. Now a dean at Madison Area Technical College in Wisconsin, Hood says he realized even back then that Wallace's stance was just a gesture. "I respect him as a human...
...insisted that he had done exactly the right thing in July 1993 when he restricted the ability of federal investigators to review documents in Vince Foster's office in the days after Foster's apparent suicide. "I'm proud of my conduct," Nussbaum declared at one point. To which Alabama's Richard Shelby, a former Democrat, replied with a convert's contempt for his old faith: "You're probably the only person in America who's proud of your conduct...
...Alabama officials turned crimson Wednesday when the NCAA placed the school's storied football program on probation for three years. The most serious charge: the school provided "false and misleading information" about a player who was declared ineligible after signing with an agent. Among the penalties: a ban on postseason play for the coming year...
Thiessen gained access to the NASA flightsthrough the University of Alabama in Huntsville'sConsortium of Materials Development in Space,which oversees commercial space research...