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...Martin Luther King" who was on the verge of becoming a martyr of American racist injustice. A native of Birmingham, Harris, 32, seems an improbable choice as a hero. In 1974 he was serving five consecutive life sentences for robbery and rape.Then, during a riot at Fountain Correctional Center at Atmore, Ala., Harris killed a white guard by stabbing him 27 times with a homemade knife. At his 1975 trial, Harris was sentenced to death under a rarely used 1864 Alabama statute that mandates execution of a defendant found guilty of first-degree murder while serving a life sentence. Harris...
...Vilcabambans exaggerated their ages, Leaf believes, in hopes that the fountain-of-youth publicity would bring a flood of tourist dollars. Indeed, the Ecuadorian government was influenced by the influx of scientists and tourists to step up development of the area, and a Japanese group has announced plans to build a health spa and longevity research center there. But it will take more than a sampling of the Vilcabambans' vaunted regimen of hard work, low-calorie and low-animal-fat diet and high-altitude living to extend the normal life span. Concedes Leaf: "This lifestyle, although it kept them...
Ross's masterpiece was Pinehurst, which he laboriously molded out of the sand hills of North Carolina by using mule-drawn drag-pans. Overnight. Pinehurst became the mecca of American golf. The idea of building a resort at Pinehurst was the brainstorm of another Bostonian, the soda-fountain magnate James W. Tufts. On Monday, April 10, the Harvard golfers open the new season with a dual match against Tufts and Amherst
...what is probably their first clear insight into why that elusive, fuzzy ball, and the opponent on the other side of the net, behave as they do. Braden's inspiring message to the 99.9% of the population who are not superjocks: "If you can walk to the drinking fountain without falling over, you have the physical ability to play this game pretty well...
Part of the answer may be that the institutions will have to be more sensible and imaginative in their attempts to comply. In their near panic to obey the regulations, some enterprises have been guilty of compliance overkill. A California firm spent $40,000 lowering all its drinking fountains when the installation of paper-cup dispensers, at a cost of $1.60 for each fountain, would probably have brought the building into compliance. The University of Texas put an elevator for wheelchairs into the student union-at a cost of $17,000-then discovered that the elevator was too small...