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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Morale. The election of Cooper, an Alabama-born graduate of Notre Dame and New York University's School of Law, seemed to signal a new era of interracial cooperation in a community in which only one black had held an appointive position in the municipal government. One of Cooper's first postelection acts, in fact, was to visit the disabled Wallace and invite him to speak again in Prichard at any time. Preaching conciliation rather than proclaiming black power, Cooper had unseated the lackadaisical twelve-year incumbent mayor, Vernon Capps, 62, by applying some of the organizational expertise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: New Mayor in Town | 10/16/1972 | See Source »

...high school basketball team, and became one of the town's leading pool sharks. He stayed in football only at the head coach's insistence and ultimately led Beaver Falls to a western Pennsylvania championship. His college boards kept him out of Maryland and Notre Dame, so he headed south to Alabama and the ineluctable embrace of Coach Paul ("Bear") Bryant. No one has ever dominated the Bear, but Namath at least baited him to a draw. Bryant did suspend his errant pupil once for breaking training. On the other hand, Bryant's own mother would likely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joe Namath and the Jet-Propelled Offense | 10/16/1972 | See Source »

Sonny Werblin, the Jets' high-rolling owner, got Joe with what was until then the biggest salary-cum-bonus offer ever given to a football rookie. Namath quickly won the starting assignment from Regular Mike Taliaferro and the man who had beaten him for the Heisman Trophy, Notre Dame's John Huarte. Before Joe, the Jets might as well have been the Pottstown Firebirds for all anyone cared about them; their only fans were grumpy football buffs who could not afford to pay scalpers' prices for scarce New York Giant tickets. Werblin knew what he was about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joe Namath and the Jet-Propelled Offense | 10/16/1972 | See Source »

Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering University of Notre Dame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 4, 1972 | 9/4/1972 | See Source »

...Notre Dame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 4, 1972 | 9/4/1972 | See Source »

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