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Despite such controversies, the thousands of messengers did not go to the dome-topped Scope Convention Hall in Norfolk to argue. They went for song and sermons and uplift. They went for the "Joggers Jubilee" and a concert by the Anita Bryant Singers. The back-slapping men in plaid jackets, the women in bouffant hairdos and red-white-and-blue dresses, feel good-feel almost evangelical-about a church that is strong and successful and middleclass. For all its hierarchical looseness, the Southern Baptist empire extends to scores of colleges, newspapers and other holdings. The budget to be voted...
...until this January that Bryant Heating & Cooling, the team's corporate sponsor, felt it could afford a second driver. Since then, the road has been rough, even when Janet has had the chance to get out onto it. The Vollstedt team, lacking the big backing enjoyed by teams sponsored by giant oil and tire firms, has moved forward in fits and starts. The worst worry: continual mechanical problems in Guthrie's Vollstedt-designed...
...Cliffe could have used Anita Bryant and then some against a UMass squad which sank Radcliffe's record to 1-3. "They were faster swimmers," captain Jane Hendricks said afterward. "We were better organized than the last time we played them, but our defense was too sporadic...
Regardless of your playing status, however, spring training is a month in the Florida (or Arizona) sunshine, a month of drinking freshly squeezed Anita Bryant oranges and Busch Bavarian beer...
...year, Yablonski had become the first United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) official in over 40 years to challenge the entrenched leadership of the union. He had lost the December, 1969 election decisively, by 33,000 votes. That election was later overturned by U.S. District Court Judge William B. Bryant on grounds of "massive vote fraud and financial manipulation." In the 1972 election, reform candidate Arnold Miller easily swamped incumbent W.A. (Tony) Boyle by 14,000 votes. Boyle was subsequently convicted of embezzling union money, illegally contributing union funds to the 1968 Humphrey presidential campaign, but most seriously, of ordering...