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...University is to blame for this incident. It is up to responsible officials like Stephen SJ. Hall to accept the responsibility and take immediate steps to prevent further such incidents from taking place. John Alexander '74 Joel Davidson '74 Ernest Drown...
...time state champion-in the sale of encyclopedias, a job he took on the side to keep from getting hungrier. Moving on to Newport News High, he led the team to a bona fide state basketball title and then in 1960 graduated to a $6,500 job at Davidson, a small Presbyterian college in North Carolina better known until then for its academic excellence...
Within no time, the Davidson Wildcats were as hungry as ole Lefty. To beef up a puny $500 recruiting budget, he siphoned off the bulk of the team's meal money by feeding the players pimento-cheese sandwiches, once even sending them to bed without supper after they lost six games in a row. In the off season he logged 50,000 miles on the back roads of the South and beyond, searching for talent. He parked in gas stations overnight, bedding down in the back of the car with a pistol for protection. At dawn, he would shave...
...hard sell worked. Within four years, Davidson, with only 1,000 students, became a big, nationally ranked powerhouse. In 1969, after the Wildcats finished No. 3 in the U.S., grateful Davidson alumni presented Driesell with a new Thunderbird. A few weeks later he drove off to College Park, Md., and a new $25,000-a-year coaching...
...because natural-gas deliveries had been halted. Staffers at KLRN-TV, the university-operated station, reported to work in thermal underwear and huddled around a camping heater. "We submitted a plan for a nuclear power plant here, but it was rejected by the voters," said Austin City Manager Dan Davidson. "This is an unfortunate education for our citizens that we must have a new source of energy." In Indiana, Senator Birch Bayh rushed to aid farmers by arranging an emergency shipment of grain-drying propane gas from New Jersey's Public Service Electric & Gas Co. and Houston...