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...last week, in a mere two days of back pounding, arm squeezing and conservative oratory, Nelson Rockefeller managed further to blur his past image as a big-spending liberal and convince many amazed Southerners that he is really one of their own. In his two stops at Mobile, Ala., and Columbia, S.C., he did not eliminate the conservative opposition to his remaining on the ticket in 1976, but he went far toward moderating...
...able to afford long drives to overpopulated parks. They may seek out, instead, wild areas closer to home that have 'been bypassed by the Winnebago set. Such spots can be discovered almost anywhere and are worth the effort. Finding one, as 22-year-old Mike McCorkle of Montgomery, Ala., said on first sighting the Grand Canyon, is "sorta like sex. They's some things better and some things worse, but they ain't nothin' exactly like...
...will bring to Washington considerable knowledge about one element of HEW's huge triad: education. Born in Grove Hill, Ala., Mathews has been president of the U. of A. since 1969. He took his A.B. and M.A. there and got a Ph.D. in the history of American education at New York's Columbia University. "His life has been centered around education," says an Alabama associate. "His father and grandfather before him were superintendents of education in Clarke County...
...Tuscaloosa, Ala., while the country wallowed through another week of recession, Joe Namath pondered-and eventually rejected-a contract from the recently created Chicago Wind of the World Football League that promised to give him $500,000 a year for three years of play, a $500,000 bonus, plus $100,000 annually for his first 20 years of retirement. Apparently Namath decided working behind proven blockers on a solid franchise in publicity-conscious New York was worth more than the Wind's airy millions. If he remains as the Jets superstar quarterback, he will not be poverty stricken. Their...
...ways of night-flying squirrels with precision and clarity. Such books as Flight Into Space and Crusades of Chemistry made Leonard one of the nation's most respected science writers. ∙ Died. Clifford Durr, 76, Federal Communications commissioner and civil liberties lawyer; of a heart attack; in Wetumpka, Ala. On the FCC from 1941 to 1948, Durr lobbied for "public interest" channels, helping to make possible today's PBS-TV network. Later, in his native Alabama, Durr defended Mrs. Rosa Parks, a seamstress, whose 1955 arrest for violating Montgomery's bus segregation ordinance became a landmark...