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...Force lieutenant colonel. "I wanted to be accepted, so I worked on things that would make people like me," he says. Such as the guitar he bought at age 13, when he found himself alone once again at a new school in Montgomery, Ala...
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Atlanta Braves' Leftfielder Hank Aaron took time out to go fishing in Mobile, Ala., in the midst of a week during which he slugged his way closer to baseball's grandest alltime record: Babe Ruth's 714 home runs. As the suspense mounted, Aaron denied that pitchers were helping him out in his effort to break the record: "I don't even get balls down the middle in batting practice any more." Aaron, 39, said that even if he does hit No. 715 this year he will play next year. But the 1974 season will...
Mary Alice Relf, now twelve, is mentally retarded, has a speech defect, and was born without a right hand. She has a sister named Minnie, 14, and as they grew old enough to attract boys, welfare workers steered them to a federally financed family planning center in Montgomery, Ala., where they received injections every three months of a drug called Depo-Provera, which was being tested as a contraceptive...
...save a small bank that he describes as "one of the nation's most sophisticated examples of Greek Revival style." By building a new auditorium and stage between the bank and an old warehouse on a rear lot, he turned the complex into a theater. Residents of Montgomery, Ala., called Weese to save the classical pre-Civil War state capitol from legislators who want a new building. He has proposed new lighting and air conditioning and a refurbishing of the gracious old details, down to the yellow-pine floors and marble fireplaces...