Word: alphonso
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...something he gives in to--like a child," said Hines' lawyer, Henry Mims. A committee composed of Steve Wynn, a Decatur black businessman, Dr. Densmore Robinson, the white principal of the Cherry Street School and past president of the Alabama Association of the Disabled and Handicapped, and Rev. Alphonso Robinson, the minister of the Newcomb Street Church of Christ, the Hines' family church, asked Mims to take the case...
...Super-Seniors-players who are at least 55 years old and still compete in tournament tennis. In the five years since the Super-Senior organization was founded, divisions have been formed first for free-swinging 60s, then for 65s, 70s and 75s. This year Super-Senior President C. Alphonso ("Smithy") Smith, who as a mere stripling of 68 has already won some 30 national championships, has organized the 80s, surely the sport's most exclusive fraternity. To mark the inaugural. Smithy, as nonplaying captain, is taking a team consisting of Henry Doyle, 81, and Travis Smith, 80, to England...
Though Super-Seniors have as intense an aversion to losing as today's well-paid professionals, they make their own line calls, rarely dispute a referee's ruling and never indulge in Nastase-like tantrums. That gentlemanly attitude makes life easier for Alphonso Smith, who will supervise the U.S. Clay Court Championships for 70s, 75s and 80s this September in Charlottesville, Va. "But the real reason I like the Super-Seniors," he says with tongue tucked firmly in cheek, "is that you don't have to worry about getting harassed by the parents...
...uncertainties and imponderables that lie ahead for Spain, none is more baffling than the personage of Prince Juan Carlos Alphonso Victór Maria de Borbón y Borbón, grandson of King Alphonso XIII of Spain and great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria of England. He was chosen by Franco in 1969 to ascend the throne after his death, in the hope that the royal scion would assure an orderly succession and maintain the stern, one-party system that the dictator had created. Whether the enigmatic Prince, 36, can meet these hopes is as problematical...
...clerk for Alphonso J. Zirpoli, the judge hearing the C.O. suit in California, said that judges in general do not like to render inconsistent decisions and that he expects the Washington ruling to carry great weight in future cases...