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...police how she had been overwhelmed by worries about "money, her failed marriage and a series of other romantic relationships in disarray." "Something had to be going on there," says Lewis Jeter III, the former special-education teacher at Union High School who supervised Susan in the Junior Civitan Club, which helped disabled kids. He remembers "a sweet, loving young lady" who seemed to adore children. "The woman that killed her children is not the same young woman I knew in high school," he insists. "Someone close to her should have noticed, and it bothers me that...
There was a lot of courage and generosity going around. Almost everything in South Bend was done, and done well, by volunteers, among them some 1,200 members of a service group called Civitan. Community people back in Elizabeth City, N.C., held bass-fishing derbies and bowlathons and the like to help Beverly James compete. She is the tenth of twelve children -- "eight of whom have finished college," her mother Penny says with pride -- and her father Roscoe has Parkinson's disease. Beverly, 19, who functions at a second-grade level intellectually, is pleasant and mannerly...
Johnston has focused his campaign on economic issues. At High Point's Civitan Club last week, he dramatically unrolled a 15-ft. chart showing the growth of the federal debt since 1941. Says Johnston: "Big Labor doesn't cause inflation. Big Business doesn't cause inflation. Big Oil doesn't cause inflation. Big Brother causes inflation." Johnston promises to re-evaluate the windfall-profits tax on oil companies and to slash federal income taxes by 30%. Says he: "The issue this fall is not between Republicans and Democrats. It is between those who want to vote...
...Mickey Wright, 29: first-place money ($1,250) in the Muskogee (Okla.) Civitan Open golf tournament with a three-over-par 213, nine strokes better than second-place Marlene Hagge. The victory, fourth in six tournaments this year, brought her 1964 winnings to $7,400, almost twice as much as any other woman golf...
...Zaharias ever did," says Veteran Pro Louise Suggs, "and she gets her distance entirely in the air. Babe got hers entirely on the roll." Mickey averages 225 yds. off the tee, often gets the ball out 270 yds.: with the help of a 40-m.p.h. wind in the Dallas Civitan Open in 1960, she actually overdrove the green on a 385-yd. hole. "I can outhit many men-much to their embarrassment," says Mickey gaily. "They think they are pitting their masculinity against my femininity, their strength against mine. That's foolish. They aren't competing with...