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Ford is a retired pro soccer player who has coached teams in England and the United States. He entered the professional ranks with Burton Albion of the English Southern Division from 1961-63 and coached squads in Uttoxeter and Bristol during those three years...
...Clockwork Orange into a film, the Stones were acting out the fantasy of being Alex and his droogs. When, around 1965, England's subculture of Purple Hearts and winklepickers began to mutate into hashish and Moroccan caftans, it was the Stones who bore the full weight of Albion's reprobation. Three of them were busted, haled into court and subjected to a campaign of vilification from the English right-wing press. The Stones became the scapegoats of England's drug problem, and their legal vicissitudes provided London with the juiciest gossip since the Profumo scandal...
Raising money for scholarships is usually a laborious routine, but four undergraduates at small (1,700 students) Albion College in Albion, Mich., have managed to rake in a sizable amount and enjoy themselves in the process...
...stockbroker gave Healy a discourse on the evils of money and told him that God would take care of Albion's finances. Other meetings were more lucrative. One of the quartet's more ambitious plans was to raffle off a trip to the Bahamas, which was technically illegal. But the authorities winked benignly and the students netted $10,000. They also imitated the political parties by staging $100-a-plate dinners-"Beefsteaks for Bernie," so named after the college's new president, Bernard T. Lomas. All in all, the four students received contributions from 48 states...
Such words are small reassurance to dedicated Unionists like Billy Hull, chairman of the Loyalist Association of Workers (L.A.W.). Hull worries that Ulster may be abandoned by "perfidious Albion" and that Protestants may share the fate of those prewar "Czechoslovaks who woke up one morning and found themselves Germans." Says Hull: "If we're sold down the drain, there wouldn't be civil war. There would be armed rebellion against the government of Britain...