Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hard enough to keep up with Johnny Unitas by himself, but when he has receivers like Raymond Berry, Jimmy Orr, Lenny Moore, John Mackey and outstanding rookie Jay Perkins of Alabama, not even the likes of Leroy Mitchell can keep up the pace...
...example, the customer contracts to make regular payments to the fund for ten years-but a full 50% during the first year is diverted to salesmen's commissions and other charges. The average front-end buyer is barely aware of this fact. Said Subcommittee Chairman John Sparkman, an Alabama Democrat who also heads the full Senate Banking and Currency Committee: "Ordinarily, the salesman is pushing you so hard that you don't even look at the prospectus until you have bought the shares. And then you don't understand it when you do look...
...Dogs." As for the riots' effects on the elections of 1968, it might seem at first glance that all Governors and mayors would be hurt by major violence in their own territories. So many officeholders have had trouble, however, that the effects may be canceled out. Alabama's third-party candidate George Wallace may win further support from people who think that the Johnson Administration has been coddling Negroes. California's Republican Governor Ronald Reagan, who had been shifting slowly from a conservative position toward the center of his party's spectrum, probably solidified his standing...
...State constitutions should be shorn of "limitations that prevent constructive legislative and executive action" and of the hundreds of absurdly inconsequential statutes that now encumber many of them. North Carolina's constitution, for example, prohibits male and female prisoners from sharing the same jail cell. Alabama's and South Carolina's provide for the disenfranchisement of wife beaters. New York's has a provision stipulating the width of ski trails. - State legislatures should never have more than 100 members (tiny New Hampshire has 424, or one for every 1,500 inhabitants); they should receive salaries...
...contest. Not pausing to quibble over semantics, the judges in Miami Beach looked over 56 nicely accentuated young ladies and selected the reigning Miss U.S.A., Sylvia Hitchcock, 21, to be the next Miss Universe. A Miami poultry farmer's daughter and an art major at the University of Alabama, the new queen plans to go into teaching if her head isn't turned by $31,000 in baubles and the lure of Hollywood...