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DIED. John Sparkman, 85, former Democratic Senator from Alabama and Adlai Stevenson's 1952 vice-presidential running mate; of a heart attack; in Huntsville, Ala. Son of a tenant farmer, Sparkman spent 42 years in Congress, serving ten years in the House and 32 years in the Senate, even though he was sometimes accused back home of "going North and turning left." A powerful housing advocate as chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee (1967-74), he also supported the Panama Canal treaties while chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1975 until his retirement four...
Underscoring the contradictions of the American South, Alabama, the civil rights movement's most volatile battleground, will observe the third Monday in January as a dual holiday honoring the birthdays of King and Confederate General Robert E. Lee. In Selma, the city council voted over the protest of Mayor Joe Smitherman to approve a candlelight walk to the Edmund Pettus Bridge, site of a bloody 1965 clash between black marchers and police. In Birmingham, near the Sixteeth Avenue Baptist Church, where a bomb killed four little girls in 1963, a 7-ft.-tall bronze likeness of King was scheduled...
...again fine of the defendant. Juries sometimes find that a person's actual damages amounted to only a few thousand dollars, yet decide that the corporation at fault should also pay punitive damages in the millions. In one startling case, now awaiting decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, an Alabama couple sued Aetna Life & Casualty Co., claiming that it had wrongfully refused to pay $1,650 of the wife's hospital bill. A jury awarded them punitive damages of $3.5 million, or 2,121 times the size of the disputed bill...
...South, where Democrats have dominated state capitals since Reconstruction, races in Alabama, Texas, Florida and South Carolina are too close to call. Only in Tennessee, where Governor Lamar Alexander is required by law to leave office after his two terms, do the Democrats seem likely to pick up a seat currently held by a Republican...