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With the board-the-bus game still a scoreless tie, the best hope for Crawfordville's Negroes lay with a three-judge Federal Court scheduled to hear a protest suit, brought by a dozen Negro parents, this week in Augusta...
...down on two chairs after every ten steps. Manfully, he tried to curb his appetite; no longer did he wolf down 15 chickens at a sitting. But doctors said he needed stricter discipline. When he waddled into the Medical College of Georgia's Clinical Investigation Unit in Augusta to volunteer for obesity research, he tipped the hospital's meat scale...
Rigid Regimen. Cobb stuck to his stiff regimen, completed the program last spring. Now, at 232, he has gone to work in an Augusta shoe-repair shop. He returns to the hospital for a checkup every other week, and has maintained his new figure. Says he: "There's a heap more will power connected with it than anything else...
Critic John Mason Brown, a cabin mate of Mac Bundy's aboard Kirk's flagship the Augusta during the Normandy landings, recalls that even then Mac was hardly the shy type. "On D-plus-one," said Brown, "I was summoned to the admiral's quarters and all the brass were having breakfast, including General Bradley. Mac was there too-the lowly lieutenant. Bradley was explaining some invasion move, and at one point he said, 'And then we go in here.' Mac said-in effect-'No we don't.' And Bradley accepted...
...Power of Peale. Still, going into last week's Masters Tournament at Augusta, Ga., golfs No. 1 money winner ($113,284 in 1964) was in anything but a jovial mood: he had not won a tournament in six months, and his official earnings this year totaled a piddling $14,400 - hardly enough to support the new blue and white Aero Commander he flies around the circuit...