Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good is Harvard? How good is Princeton? It's well-nigh impossible to tell since neither team has yet faced anything remotely resembling competition (except for Princeton's pre-season meet with Alabama). But we certainly should find out this weekend...
...Cooper, mayor of Prichard, Alabama for the past seven years, said yesterday he is "a workaholic," and will use his time as an Institute fellow to study small cities and reflect on his own career. He will spend one week a month in Prichard...
...effort failed, he turned to the Democrats. Moving among them, carefully sounding them out, he finally got four acceptable candidates: Iowa Liberal John Culver, who is a close friend; Vermont's Patrick Leahy and Montana's Baucus. For geographical balance, he chose a newly elected Southerner from Alabama, Howell Heflin, who is considered a worldly moderate in the mold of Sam Ervin. The Democratic Steering Committee, which makes the assignments to committees, approved Kennedy's selections. He was then assured a solid majority on the Judiciary Committee...
...last of the Watergate convicts, former Attorney General John Mitchell, was freed from an Alabama federal prison last week after serving 14 months of his one-to four-year sentence. Meanwhile, the Watergate judge, John Sirica, was dotting the i's on his forthcoming book To Set the Record Straight (W.W. Norton; $15). The judge, now 74 and semiretired, drew upon impressions he jotted down during the trial: how the witnesses and defendants looked and acted, whether he felt they were telling the truth or "exaggerating." The actual work took place at his Washington home, in a study with...
...Courts are not a budgeting agency," says Harvard Law School Professor Emeritus Paul Freund. "They see problems through a keyhole. What they ordain in the way of expenditures is not correlated with expenditures for other needs." To clean up state prisons, judges in Alabama, Rhode Island, Oklahoma and Louisiana have decreed elaborate instructions on food handling, hospital operations, recreation facilities, sanitation, laundry, painting and plumbing, including the number of inmates per toilet. In Virginia, a federal judge overruled a school-board ban on the publication of a high school poll on birth control; in New Mexico, a judge ruled that...