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...Many people shudder when they come into town," explains Grand Forks. N.D. Mayor Bud Wessman, "because they think they've come to the end of the world...
...system faces enormous problems: 30% of Boston's high school students cannot read; the dropout rate is a staggering 47%; in twelve years enrollment dropped 40%, from 96,000 to 58,000. Says Boston School Superintendent Robert ("Bud") Spillane, who has held his job only 18 months: "There is no question that the school system has been abandoned...
...LORDS OF DISCIPLINE has the style and substance of a good beer commercial. Not the ditzy variety that conjures up visions of cheerful beer weekends and toasts between mellow and tanned "good friends." This is strictly a movie about earning your Bud--going through the kinds of trials and tribulations of manhood that can only be rewarded with a satisfying lager. By the film's end, our hero has earned, if not an academy award, certainly a six pack...
...every bridge and overpass along the route, at every entrance and exit ramp, in rest areas and upon medians people were standing. Among the mourners were his players, present and past, including Joe Namath, Richard Todd, Lee Roy Jordan, John David Crow; and his coaching colleagues, like Bud Wilkinson, Darrell Royal, Eddie Robinson, Woody Hayes. "When I heard, it was like March 31, 1931," said Hayes, 69, the historian. "I was on the practice field. Someone came over to me and said, 'Rockne is dead.' Rockne was the great coach of his era; this man is the great...
...Joanne, smiles for the photographers, and then goes back to the trailer to rage. Later, very seriously, he apologizes for losing. He does not really cheer up until the awards dinner that night, when, looking as impish as Butch Cassidy, he succeeds in smuggling a camera bag full of Bud...