Word: tuscaloosa
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...just one little catch. The shop was a sting operation code-named Western Sizzler and run by Birmingham police, and the customers were thieves looking to make a quick buck on stolen goods. Johnny was Johnny Samaniego, 34, a squat, bearded undercover narcotics agent on loan from the Tuscaloosa police department. With his gift for gab, Johnny would lure the thieves into talking about their crimes and giving their names and addresses. "Where did you steal it?" Johnny would ask. Eager to brag, many would supply the full details, even showing off the tools they used. All the while...
...does. He who cannot, teaches." So goes the infamous putdown of academics. Well, some professors at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa really can. The scholars and their students have come to the rescue of a local General Motors carburetor assembly plant where 200 workers were about to lose their jobs. The automotive giant, frustrated with operating deficits at its Rochester Products Division factory, had planned to close it down. But the academics came up with a number of cost-cutting ideas that helped stem the plant's losses, and now Rochester Products is being hailed...
...bought the former textile mill in 1977, at the height of the new-car boom. But sales began a four-year slump in 1979, and in August 1982 GM announced it would close the factory unless local managers and workers could eliminate $2 million a year in losses. Tuscaloosa employees suggested 100 ways to cut costs, yet the total savings fell $500,000 short of what was needed...
...they can. Wisconsin hopes to cash in on the 325 acres it owns in downtown Madison, and the University of Alabama has been developing coal deposits on land that the state received from the Federal Government after the Civil War to compensate for battle damage to the Tuscaloosa campus...
From the three downtown Tuscaloosa churches, where 1,500 listened to the simple 18-min. service, it is 51 miles to Birmingham, where Bryant was buried. On the cold Friday morning, Alabamans lined the first mile of the route four deep, and all of the way in ones and twos. When the white hearse, followed by hundreds of cars, came to the hospital where Bryant had died, scrub-suited surgeons stepped outside with masks dangling. The cortege passed the university where Bryant had played his college football and where he coached 25 of his 38 head-coaching seasons, winning...