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Past students include University of Alabama Football Coach Homer A. Smith, who graduated in 1982, and David Stockman, former director of the Reagan Administration's Office of Management and Budget...
...Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway took $2 billion and twelve years to build, but even before the 234-mile-long canal opened in 1985, it became notorious as one of the biggest Government boondoggles of all time. Connecting the Tennessee River with Alabama's Tombigbee River, which empties into the Gulf of Mexico at Mobile, the waterway was intended to give commercial traffic an alternative route to the Mississippi River. But the Tennessee-Tombigbee quickly proved to be much more popular with pleasure boaters than with shippers, who prefer the Mississippi because it is deeper, wider and has fewer locks...
While the G.O.P. legions were massed in New Orleans, Michael Dukakis was waging a guerrilla campaign deep in Republican territory. He popped up in Alabama, Florida and Texas, contrasting what he later called his attachment to Main Street with Republican roistering on Bourbon Street. The incursion was central to his strategy. For weeks Dukakis has been traveling to states as small as North Dakota and as large as California that have gone Republican in recent presidential elections. He even told Floridians, in defiance of all conventional wisdom, "I believe we're going to win here...
...more than half a million gallons of liquid hydrogen and oxygen from Discovery's tanks before technicians could examine problems. NASA engineers are not certain exactly what caused last week's problem. Said Joseph Lombardo, who oversees the shuttle's main-engine project at Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama: "We don't know whether it was a faulty indication or really a malfunction in the valve." At week's end NASA officials suspected that a sensor had been affected by excessive engine cooling during the countdown. They planned to replace the valve and the sensor monitoring it. This week...
...days when blacks in the South were allowed to sit on only one side of the courtroom. In 1986, for example, the Supreme Court made it more difficult for prosecutors to use peremptory challenges to keep blacks off juries. A few months later, an all-white jury in Alabama awarded $7 million to a black mother who sued the United Klans of America over the lynching death of her son, a far cry from the days when an all-white Mississippi panel freed two white men in the infamous 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till...