Word: baseness
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DIED. James Gilliam, 49, coach and former player for the Los Angeles Dodgers; following a stroke; in Inglewood, Calif. The Tennessee-born Gilliam joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1953, replacing Jackie Robinson at second base, and was celebrated as a "ballplayer's ballplayer" before turning into a player-coach in 1965 and a full-time coach two years later. Stricken on Sept. 15, Gilliam slipped into a coma and never knew that his team had dedicated its league championship and World Series play...
...state, overshadows nearby Decatur. Huntsville grew phenomenally in the '50s because of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration--Werner von Braun and his associates built and designed the first Saturn rockets there. Due to the top-secret level of the project, Huntsville grew out of Redstone Arsenal Army base--a major Army installation. The government took over the growth of the city and its surrounding vicinity. As a result, school desegregation met with few problems; integrated neighborhoods have always been common in both Huntsville and Decatur. Governor George C. Wallace stopped carrying North Alabama...
...well. It's all very simply arithmetic: the Republicans can usually count on the northern half of the state, Democrats can usually count on the southern half, and the winner winds up as the party that manages to sneak enough votes out of enemy territory. Last May, his home base presumably secured by his heroics in passing the city financing bill, Carey had seemed on the verge of invading the upstate Republican fortresses with enough in the way of last-minute patronage to assure an easy victory. But it hasn't worked out that...
...claims that his administration has been fair and straight are true, then he has nothing to fear from such a committee. Members of the senior faculty have backed the idea, and certainly, it can only help a situation which now dangerously threatens to undercut the integrity and financial base of America's oldest school of public health...
...York pension funds had been reinvested in the city to create jobs, along the lines of community development efforts now taking place in harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant, the city's tax base could have supported a high level of social services. But the choice for the Graybelt is no longer just more or fewer social services, but whether or not regional depression will set in. The choice is between a stable, job-providing economy and an economy that pushes us down, down, down, until we're just like Taiwan...