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...Miami-area voters will cast ballots on a proposal in favor of homosexuals' rights, 17 months after Singer Anita Bryant led a noisy and successful campaign to defeat a similar referendum. This time, however, backers have dressed up the question as a "full-equality ordinance" that includes prohibitions of discrimination against pregnant women, veterans, students, Hispanics and the handicapped as well as homosexuals. The proposition's chances are rated fifty-fifty. Not so for a second issue on the Florida ballot, which would permit casino gambling on the state's economically troubled gold coast. Hotel owners have...
...main problem was to prove himself to players who knew of him only as a legend and who wondered if he had been left behind by the game. Wilkinson quickly banished fears that he was obsolete, as I knew he would. College coaches around the country - Bear Bryant of Alabama, Duffy Daugherty of Michigan State, Darrell Royal of Texas - used to call him on Monday morning to talk over the glory and the agony of the previous Saturday afternoon. Wilkinson had also conducted coaching clinics with Daugherty, and he had been ABC'S expert TV commentator on college football...
Persons who have already bought tickets can obtain refunds at the Hillel office, 1 Bryant St., or at Sanders Theater on Oct. 31, the night Singer was scheduled to read some of his stories and answer questions...
...Bryant's services will be missed. One librarian said yesterday that he inspires "leadership and cooperation without infringing upon the tradition of autonomy that each library within the system holds...
President Bok has not yet formed a search committee to find Bryant's replacement...