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...Where?" In Baltimore, Shula's second stop, Weeb Ewbank even required him to prepare for emergency ser vice behind Unitas and George Shaw. When at 33 he became the Colts' head coach, youngest in the history of the league, Shula never tried to be Brown, Ewbank, Blanton Collier or any other coach of his experience. "The players can sense a copy," he thinks, and this has also been his view of quarterbacking. "I didn't try to jam Johnny Unitas' style down Bob Griese's throat. I never expected David Woodley to be Griese...
Observers say the campaign in Florida has been largely devoid of issues, with Glenn and Mondale badgering Hart, and Hart sticking to his "new ideas" theme. Says Donna Blanton-of the Orlando Sentinel, "the average Democrat here doesn't know anything about where they stand. Hart's rise has a lot to do with his image as a young, new, fresh face...
...Mondale has been working Florida harder than any of the other southern states. Blanton recalls that the Mondale organization had 30 paid staffers last fall when Mondale finished strongly against Askew in a state straw poll...
...investigator looking into alleged bidding improprieties, "If you think it's bad here, you ought to see it in Tennessee." The Justice Department made haste to do exactly that, eventually prosecuting 44 cases in that state alone. Among those nailed: the brother and uncle of former Governor Ray Blanton. As guilty contractors began plea bargaining for lighter sentences and lower fines, they implicated other firms outside Tennessee, a process that quickly revealed an ever widening web of anticompetitive conspiracy...
After withdrawing from the 1978 gubernatorial race, ex-Governor Blanton was sentenced to three years and fined $ 11,000 for taking kickbacks on state liquor licenses to political favorites. The hard-drinking demagogue blames much of his trouble on Marie: "She's the only woman who ever screwed me before I had a chance to screw...