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...Governor is like Minnie Pearl when she says, 'Ah'm jes glad to be here.' Party stalwarts who once denounced Wallace as a bigot are now treating him like a brother. Last July 4, Ted Kennedy appeared with the Governor at a celebration in Decatur, Ala.; in February, Senator Henry Jackson journeyed South, where he said he would be glad to have Wallace on the ticket with him in 1976. The Governor also met with his old foe, AFL-CIO President George Meany, who came away doubting that he would vote for Wallace but acknowledging that...
...like to talk about divine retribution. But first, a little background information about my youth in Birmingham, Ala. When I was a sophomore at Mountain Brook High School (they name everything after Nature down there--the cross town rival was Fairfield, then there was Shade Valley--you get the picture), this classmate of mine named Charlie M. Christmas (yes, the M does indeed stand for Merry) became the local legend. Charlie moved to Birmingham at the beginning of tenth grade from what all my classmates called a hick town. Now the usual reaction would have been to ostracize old Charlie...
...Future of Man." She read it carefully, then clipped it out and stuck it in a manila folder. Across town, Schoolteacher Jim Fallen, 34, ripped out the piece and added it to a growing stack on a table in his bedroom. And across the U.S., from Decatur, Ala., to Saint Cloud, Minn., others read and saved the same article, which is part of a novel college course on the American experience offered to millions of readers through the columns of their local newspaper...
Blacks have been protesting these rules for more than 20 years. In 1966 black workers at U.S. Steel's massive mill operations near Birmingham, Ala., took the company and several union locals to court. This past August, Federal Judge Sam C. Pointer Jr. ordered...
Ciresi, sporting a red mask with a white strip down the center, ala Doug Savell of the Flyers, played a strong game despite the score, sweeping aside 33 Crimson shots. But while Ciresi played well, so did his counterpart over at the other...