Word: gale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...budget surplus was not to be long-lived, but it tended to demonstrate that The Crimson was a viable enterprise, not likely to fold up under an economic gale. As the paper rounded the corner into the 1880s, it seemed fairly sure of its place at Harvard...
Flight 49, a two-engine DC-9, took off from the Birmingham airport peaceably enough. Professor Gale Buchanan, a plant expert at Auburn University, began editing copy for his magazine, Weeds Today. Alex Halberstadt, a construction engineer, scribbled idly on a yellow legal pad. A two-year-old child fell asleep in his mother's arms. In the rear of the plane, Alvin Fortson, 83, sat back to enjoy the ride to Orlando to see his son. But also at the rear were three blacks-Henry Jackson, 25, Lewis Moore, 27, and Melvin Cale, 21-who had no intention...
Beginning back in our senior year, Tyrell started to dub himself "The Gale from Yale," after his high school hero, Gale Sayers. In those days it seemed an unlikely dream, but this year it became a reality. The American Dream did not work out for the rest of our friends. Angelo Nutall, a 9.6 hundred man, is in the Marine Corps. Don Thompson, a tough Irish kid who played tackle, signed up for a four-year hitch in the Navy. Russell (Sweet Sing) Singleton went to Vietnam. The others are married and working in the steel mills. The more successful...
...Yale alumnus, Bob Anderson '11, promised to finance Tyrell's stay at the Feddie School in New Jersey. He went, became All-State, raised his SAT's 300 points, and was admitted to Yale after a year. Now, together with Dick Jauron and Rudy Green, he really is the Gale from Yale...
Tyrell set his rights on Yale after he read about Calvin Hill. Because Gale Sayers was also his hero, senior year he began dubbing himself "The Gale from Yale." But the Ivy League required good SAT scores and, in our non-academic high school. Tyrell had not been prepared for college. He got good grades, but his boards were low. His mother, a strong-willed black woman, called me after he got his scores back, worried about his chances for college. I told her not to worry, but things did not look good...