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...think it is quite fitting that Jay Cooper, the descendant of a Confederate general, is now the mayor of Prichard...
...enforced. Something more has to be done. There have been 387 skyjacking attempts worldwide since the first one in 1930; of those, about two dozen, all of them recent, have been for extortion purposes. The most successful attempt was made last November by the notorious parachuter D.B. Cooper, who was never captured (authorities believe that both he and his ransom money were buried in a Washington State snowdrift). Of 38 other skyjackers, three were killed and 35 are in custody or in foreign hands; almost all the extortion money has been recovered. Thus the fact that air-piracy extortion...
...Kentucky Democrat Walter D. Huddleston, 46, is generally known as "Dee," from hi? middle initial. The nickname was a handy one during his successful campaign for the Senate seat vacated by Republican John Sherman Cooper. As state senate majority leader, Huddleston helped repeal a 5% sales tax on food items that Kentuckians vigorously resented; the tax, as it happened, had been raised by his opponent, former Governor Louie B. Nunn (no kin to Georgia's new Senator Sam Nunn). Huddleston labeled Oct. 1, when the tax repeal on food items took effect, as "Dee-day" and reminded voters...
...crowd by winning the first game. Perspiring heavily under the arc lights, British Champion Tommy O'Regan, 33, a London milkman, allowed that he would take off his jacket but "I have a hole in my shirt." Then, zeroing in, the rosy-cheeked Irishman and his partner, Alan Cooper, a 34-year-old bricklayer, won the next two games and repaired to the bar for a victory gin and lemon...
Nixon walked away with 60 per cent of Kentucky's popular vote, but his coattails were too short the former Governor Louie B. Nunn, who was edged by Democrat Walter Huddleston in a close race for the Senate seat of retiring John Sherman Cooper...