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...venting his dudgeon, state prison authorities and other officials were privately welcoming the Johnson order. Alabama's prisons are so bad that the state's counsel had admitted last August that conditions violated the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishments. 'Concedes Robert Lamar, the Montgomery private lawyer representing the state of Alabama: "Many of the things the judge ordered are things the department of corrections has wanted to do for 50 years and couldn't because it was hamstrung by a lack of funds." Still, Lamar will appeal Johnson's ruling...
Says Kansas City Chiefs Owner Lamar Hunt, football would become "complete bedlam...
...enrolling their children in academies because they are as upset by a loosening of academic standards and a lack of discipline in the public schools as they are about race. "They are trying to re-create the society they knew before," says David Nevin, research director of the Lamar Society, a civic-minded group of liberal Southerners that is studying the private schools. "A lot of them say that this is the kind of school I went...
Defensive safety Francis Cronin, who led the Crimson in interceptions last year, garnered the Henry N. Lamar Award, given to the senior "who through his dedication to Harvard football, has made a unique contribution to the program...
When specific jobs are not available, losers can be hired as consultants. Two defeated Tennessee Congressmen -LaMar Baker and Dan Kuykendall -have signed on as advisers to the Department of Transportation. Baker, 59, who was a member of the House Public Works Committee, will earn $36,000 a year lobbying for the department among his former colleagues. Kuykendall, 50, who helped write the legislation creating the U.S. Railway Association, will offer part-time advice on how to put the plan into operation...