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...players for trying to bring in the megabucks by going hardship. After all, if the USC football team is any indicator, the best college players only pull in $2,000 a year under the table. High school stars may be even more undercompensated. According to the Birmingham Post-Herald, current University of Alabama forward Bobby Lee Hurt only received a percentage of the revenues from soft drink machines and gate receipts while in high school--even after he threatened transfer to another school...
...life Greenidge has made his own decisions. As an all New England sandlot baseball player. Greenidge passed up an offer from the Red Soy to attend college. He worked as a reporter, after college, for the Boston Herald American as the first Black reporter on the staff Once, while reporting the Boston University nets be climbed four stories on the outside of a building to get an exclusive interview with the students who had taken it over Later, he resigned when asked to cover a "BlackMan's beat...
...Paris World's Fair of 1889 produced another herald of modern architectural engineering, Gustave Eiffel's 1,010-ft. tower. Except for the first Ferris wheel, the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893 did not really advance structural engineering. But it was a dream of what the American city might be. Designed under the direction of Architect Daniel Burnham and Landscape Architect Frederick Law Olmsted, who also created New York's Central Park, it helped inspire the monumental heart of Washington, D.C., as well as public buildings from coast to coast...
...virtue shared by leading papers of all sizes is stern pursuit of wrongdoers, aided by Florida's open-government laws. A Miami Herald probe of drug smuggling in the Florida Keys last year resulted in the resignation of a state attorney. The Fort Myers News-Press disclosed that a $1 million road plan benefited only the would-be developer of a housing tract; the road project was canceled. In an unusual joint venture, the Herald, St. Petersburg Times and Orlando Sentinel Star are spending $75,000 to computerize records of every contribution of $50 or more to candidates...
...papers are equally good at nongovernmental digging. Lucy Morgan of the St. Petersburg Times was a runner-up for a Pulitzer Prize this year for tracing the flow of drugs into two rural Florida counties. So was Ken Wells of the Miami Herald for reports on drought and water management. Herald Reporter Gene Miller won Pulitzers in 1967 and 1976 for exonerating individuals convicted of murder...