Word: alas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...candidates, last week was a time to put the varied theories of their strategists to the test. Determined to dominate the Old Confederacy once again, Carter perspired in shirtsleeves amid some 25,000 Labor Day picnickers in a dusty, red-dirt park in Tuscumbia, Ala. He strummed all the Southern heartstrings he plays so lovingly. He enjoyed the music of Country Stars Charlie Daniels and Larry Gatlin, and shared the stage with former Alabama Governor George Wallace. He told how he had toured the Gettysburg battlefield with his friends Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin, and how it reminded him that...
DIED. Ralph ("Shug") Jordan, 69, head football coach at Auburn University for 25 seasons (until 1975), and winner of more Southeastern Conference games than anyone but Alabama's Paul ("Bear") Bryant and Mississippi's John Vaught; of leukemia; in Auburn, Ala. Jordan had 175 wins, 83 losses and seven ties; though Bryant's Crimson Tide beat Jordan's Tigers 13 times in 18 years, Auburn's five wins were the most against 'Bama by any S.E.C. team...
...touchy decision that will nearly eliminate Medicaid-financed abortions. Civil rights activists were pleased by the court's approval of a federal public works program setting aside 10% of funds for minority-run businesses, but dismayed by a decision that perpetuated a white-dominated electoral system in Mobile, Ala. Free-speech champions got more than they had hoped for in a ruling guaranteeing open criminal trials, but were stunned earlier by the court's support for sanctions against CIA Agent Turned Author Frank Snepp...
...Birmingham, Ala., blacks have elected a black mayor and wield much more power than in the days of the celebrated civil rights crusades. Yet black anger at the white-dominated police force is almost as intense as it was when Police Commissioner Bull Connor and his snarling dogs gained national notoriety...
...role as Norma Rae, the Southern mill hand with a heart of steel and an eye for her union organizer. Fresh from that Academy Award performance, Field is at work in the South again in an even more down-to-earth assignment. In Back Roads, now shooting in Mobile, Ala., she plays a hooker who falls in love with a down-and-out boxer and decides to travel cross-country with him. If her roles are becoming more elemental, life for Field herself is growing more complicated. "I'm used to being the last person cast," she says, reflecting...