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BIRMINGHAM. Ala.--A cadaver was removed from an anatomy class at the University of Alabama School of Medicine after a medical student reported that it was the body of her great aunt...
...lyric from the score of The Unsinkable Molly Brown-"Nobody wants me down like I wants me up"-had special meaning last week along the waterfront in Mobile, Ala. To make way for a $15 million port expansion, the city fathers decided to demolish a five-story riverfront warehouse. A TV crew was invited to watch the fun as engineers planted 150 Ibs. of dynamite around the foundation. Then a mighty roar and a cloud of dust-but only the first floor was blown out. The rest dropped onto the foundation intact. The next day workmen tried again. And again...
...virtually all other kinds of financial institutions to sign up for tax-sheltered Individual Retirement Accounts. The Fidelity Group of mutual funds in Boston has produced a slick color film about its IRAs that is now playing at workplaces that range from factory floors to coal mines. In Birmingham, Ala., the Robinson-Humphrey Co. brokerage firm rented a hotel ballroom to tell people of the virtues of IRAs. Western Federal Savings & Loan Association in Los Angeles calls its retirement plans "fat-cat accounts" and promotes them with posters, balloons and badges that depict a smirking feline figure even plumper than...
...awkward moment, one of the President's boots stuck in the mud and only the quick reaction of two volunteer workers prevented him from falling into the slime. The incident was a fitting metaphor for Reagan's two-day trip, which also took him to Montgomery, Ala., Nashville and Oklahoma City. The White House had been looking for ways to pull the President out of the thickening political muck in Washington and portray him as a man of compassion. The stopover in Fort Wayne provided just such an opportunity...
Gandy, the only ECAC player from Huntsville, Ala., turned aside 34 shots to upset the Elis (now 10-9-1). The Big Green, which lost to Harvard, 11-1, in its season opener, took a 2-0 lead on goals by Tom Cross and Bruce Cullen before Jim Steiner put Yale on the scoreboard in the second period...