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After his Harvard career ends this spring. Regan plans to continue running, probably focusing on the steeplechase. His post-graduation prospects include study at a British university, and he is currently applying for several fellowships. One coach at the University of Birmingham has already expressed an interest in helping Regan improve, via the system of daily double workouts which has already produced several British Olympic steeplechasers. Regan also plans to continue his research on British imperial policy after World War I--the subject of his senior thesis in the History department...
...game, where everyone left off, and play it out, perhaps shifting a few games from icy cities as winter stiffens. Is that possible? "This league stopped barnstorming 40 years ago," snaps Rozelle, who usually tries not to snap in the service of the owners. "Is Buffalo going to use Birmingham for six games? Is Green Bay going to use Memphis? The clubs, in my opinion, would have to offer refunds to season-ticket holders who contracted to watch games in October and November that would be played in January and February." Besides, he doubts that the TV networks would reprogram...
...Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group a Mate-wide group Supporting the bill, will who hold a major drive all weekend, leafletting in Harvard Square and canvassing neighborhoods according to campus director Susan Birmingham. "We hope to have every poll covered on election day, she said...
Last week Wallace won the Democratic nomination to become Governor for what would be an unprecedented fourth term (or fifth, if one counts the partial term served by Wallace's wife, the late Governor Lurleen). Wallace, at 63, beat a well-heeled moderate Birmingham suburbanite, George McMillan. Alabama liberals wince at the choice available in November: either George Wallace or the Republicans' pistol-packing law-and-order Reaganite mayor of Montgomery, Emory Folmar. In the weird way that these things happen, Folmar, 52, is playing the part of the old George Wallace in this race, running against...
...quality of those woods occasionally comes out in George Wallace's voice: a slurred dankness and a warning. But mostly his message is one of populist conciliation. Wallace is a born-again Christian. He appeared before the assembled blacks of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Birmingham last summer and apologized for his old segregationist politics. Have you changed in your attitude toward blacks? Wallace is asked today. "No," he replies. "I have respected and loved them always...