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...enough, Coors balked, and the state of Florida has filed extortion and consumer-product-tampering charges against Harvey. Exhibit A: tests showing that while the sealed beer can left Coors months earlier, the mouse itself had been dead for only a week or less. After surrendering to authorities in Macon, Ga., Harvey now sits in a Jacksonville jail, where the strongest drink available is a can of cola...
Temple's lacrosse team would not be the first top-seeded Owl team to lose in an NCAA Tournament this season. Duke upset Temple and its star Mark Macon in the March NCAA Basketball Tournament in March with great defense from Blue Devil forward Billy King. Harvard will need such an effort from Dermody, Maggie Vaughan, Julia French, and the other defensive stalwarts...
Temple: Philly is buzzing because of this team. With Mark Macon, the Owls won't fall asleep at this party...
Even when Reagan swept the rest of Georgia in 1984, Macon went solidly for Walter Mondale. This Democratic solidarity is due partly to the high proportion of black voters: 40% within Macon's city limits. More important, Macon's Democratic leaders have helped forge a coalition of blacks and blue- collar whites who vote together against the local aristocrats who own the cotton and soybean farms and run the banks and brokerages...
...Macon's whites are a tad cynical about Gore. "I've heard some people wonder whether he's too wishy-washy," says Lawing, "trying to look more conservative in the South than he really is." Competition from foreign textiles and other imports worries people, and Gephardt's protectionist message might find a sympathetic audience. "If he's for limiting imports," says Prew Wilson, 54, who lost his job at a textile mill last Christmas, "you can bet I'll listen...