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William N. Confer Dothan, Ala...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 15, 1980 | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

Hall of Fame Classic, December 27, at Birmingham, Ala.: Spell this game d-u-d. Who cares? Arkansas (6-5) and Tulane (7-4) have both proved unimpressive. The Razorbacks...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Don't Get Bowled Over | 12/13/1980 | See Source »

...Mars Rover being built by CalTech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., which will be able to wheel itself about on the rugged planet, look at rocks with its TV eyes and dig up samples with its shovel. Engineers at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., now are working on a robot that will be able to take off from the space shuttle, reach an ailing satellite in orbit and repair it. The Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., similarly, is building a robot that can be sent out aboard an unmanned submarine to find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Robot Revolution | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

...could set off a small panic. When a man named John Robinson checked into a hotel in nearby Macon, local newspapers announced with alarm that the University of Southern California's coach had come to cart Walker away. John Robinson turned out to be a salesman from Huntsville, Ala...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: How 'Bout Them Dawgs? | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

...Mobile, Ala., he was frequently beaten with a stick by his mother. At 17, he dropped out of school and began getting into frequent scrapes with the police. He was arrested for assault, carrying concealed we and disorderly conduct. 'He became an Evangelical Christian, then a Nazi finally, a Ku Klux Klansman. At one point he told friends that he was going to join Ian Smith's Rhodesian army. Instead Joseph Paul Franklin, now 30, continued to drift from state to state, driven by twin passions: his love of rifles and his hatred of blacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Racist Rifleman | 11/10/1980 | See Source »

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