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...DIED. AUSTIN HANSEN, 85, photographer who recorded the daily life of Harlem over six decades; in New York City. Hansen, who began taking pictures at age 12, specialized in news photos...
Harvard's 368 scholars far surpass the number two University of Texas at Austin, which has 221. Rice University came in at third with 214 and Texas A&M University and the University of Oklahoma finished out the top five with 194 and 178, respectively...
...AUSTIN: Finally succumbing to the multiple sclerosis which had crippled her for the last several years, former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan died on Wednesday. She was 59. The daughter of a Baptist minister, Jordan attained national prominence for her ringing oratory during the Watergate hearings in 1974 and a keynote address that galvanized the 1976 Democratic National Convention. "My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total," she declared during one of the House Judiciary Committee hearings on whether to impeach Richard Nixon. "She had a voice that sounded like the voice of the Constitution itself," recalls...
...potential synergy between cops and residents works not only in big cities: Taylor, Texas, about 28 miles northeast of Austin, has just 13,300 people. But no place is too small for the drug trade. Five years ago, crack moved in among the cotton gins and railroad tracks, bringing with it assault, rape, car theft and murder. Crime got so bad that Mae Willie Turner, 79, and her sister, Gladys Hubbard, 73, could no longer sit at night on their front porch. "The place was infested," says Turner...
...guess the weather is not going to be a suitable excuse," Gilbert joked yesterday during a telephone interview from Austin, where it was 72 degrees...