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...Three vice presidents have resigned in protest, and the faculty has twice passed no-confidence votes against the president, the last by a 3-to-l margin. In November, Funderburk refused the faculty's request that he step down. Matters worsened last week with the resignation of Wayne Flynt as chairman of the history department. Three days earlier, Gerald Johnson had quit as head of the political-science program. Said he: "I know that I could not in good conscience and integrity tell a young faculty member that Auburn is the place for you in your professional future...
...artificial pond. Public restrooms appeared near the depot. There were two shops dedicated to selling good local crafts, and-miraculously and surrealistically -there was a new, genuine French restaurant in an old chicken house outside town that served one-star meals at half the New York price. Larry Flynt began publishing a weekly newspaper, the Monitor, with a crusading editor imported from Kentucky and a G rating; a few other out-of-staters, widely viewed locally as carpetbaggers, set up various tourist scams. But the supply of post-election tourists dwindled fast, roughly as fast as two facts dawned...
...they wait to see how much they'll get from their famous son-or how much they'll have to bear. Some of the burdens are already lifting. The carpetbaggers are leaving, Larry Flynt has closed his paper, the junk shops are starving. Jimmy Carter will be the youngest man since Calvin Coolidge to return from the White House; and surely neither he nor his equally impelled wife can predict their own movements or calculate their effects. They have not really lived in Plains for ten years. But though the townsmen are curious, they're not postponing...
...prudence, Michael Kaye Evans, 40, is a flamboyant exception. Evans delivers his often outrageous, generally gloomy opinions with a resounding finality. His manner has made him a figure of almost constant controversy. Lyle Gramley, a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, calls Evans "the Larry Flynt of econometrics." Yet he is the darling of conservatives on Capitol Hill, where he appears often to testify...
...told the editors: "I now regret having followed our attorney's advice." To which Washington Post Editor Ben Bradlee replied: "Now, because of some chicken lawyer . . . you've got me cornered into supporting you-reluctantly. I do it with about as much enthusiasm as I would Larry Flynt and Hustler...