Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Faith is one thing that Alabama has, and feeding it is a highly organized operation renowned not only for its success, but also its profitability. 'Bama football has paid for half of a $4.9 million coliseum, an indoor pool, a $1.1 million track complex and a prairie of varsity tennis courts. But these bonuses come after costs like $175,000 a year in airfare to out-of-town games. Alabama football is a way of life-first class...
...albums have been gushed over by critics. He has had three No. 1 country hit singles-one of which offers a shot of sheer country angst: My heart is breakin' like the tiny bubbles./ She's actin' single, I'm drinkin' doubles. The success of songs like that makes Fort Pierce mighty proud, especially the 31 Stewarts listed in the phone book, all of whom are related to Gary some way or other...
...know it until it's too late." Getting them together again, he felt, would destroy a great plot-as well as undermine a sound moral. Now, at 80, Atlanta Attorney Mitchell, a father of two sons, has had a change of heart. Probably impressed by the phenomenal success of Jaws, he approached its co-producers, Zanuck and Brown, who promptly snapped up his offer. "I figured I might as well let them have a go at it," says Mitchell. "Nobody can write like Margaret could anyway...
...favor of the Equal Rights Amendment last year. "A man shies away from an overly aggressive female," warns Gale Childers, who nonetheless has been aggressive enough to be a South Carolina bank branch manager at the age of 30. Alabama State Treasurer Melba Till Allen owes much of her success at the polls to her charming, ultrafeminine manner. Says she, "I don't believe that a woman could win in Alabama if she were not a lady." Yet Allen recently showed up for an official appearance in Birmingham driving a pickup truck complete with CB radio and gun rack...
...after a long illness; in Bronxville, N.Y. As a young English professor at the University of Alabama after World War I, Carmer wandered through the backwoods of the state, talking with natives both black and white. The result: Stars Fell on Alabama, a vivid collection of country lore. Its success led him back home to "York State," as he liked to call the 55 upstate New York counties, to write his loving chronicles of the region, including Listen for a Lonesome Drum, Dark Trees to the Wind and a novel, Genesee Fever. Carmer also published volumes on the Susquehanna...