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...something's up in the Bear's backyard. Alabama President Joab L. Thomas '55, who holds three Harvard degrees, established new standards for his school's football program in announcing the appointment of Bill Curry as head coach. Thomas hired Curry for three reasons: first, personal integrity; second, a commitment to improving the academic performance of his players; and third--and last--desire...
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...cannot solvethe national problem of homelessness. "If you put200 new beds in here today, there's be 400 morepeople here as soon as the word got around," hesaid, adding that no city neighborhood wouldaccept a shelter without protest. "It's likeprisons and dumps--everybody wants them but `notin my backyard,'" he said...
There was a tall dirt mound bordering the backyard of the final row of houses. Ducking into a finely manicured lawn, I scrambled up the heap...
...honor. The house where the Weiss family used to live stood just to one side, notes William A. Brehm Jr., a card-carrying magician who is also the city's director of planning and development. "Our plaza," beams Brehm, young Bill's father, "is really Houdini's backyard. It's where he was stringing up clotheslines to practice as an acrobat...