Word: cunningham
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moved, and that Reynolds then clubbed him with a stick. Felix Freelon, father of two Negro schoolchildren, said that William Bryant Flanagan had hit him with a blackjack. According to Charles Alexander, 17, Justice of the Peace James R. Ayers had threatened him with a pistol. And Emerald Cunningham, 11, a polio victim who could not run, added that Ayers had chased her, grabbed her dress, pulled her down, kicked her, put a pistol to her head, and warned: "If you bring your black ass back to the white school, I'll blow your brains...
...enough. The experienced defense lawyer was Hugh Cunningham, law partner of ex-Governor Ross Barnett and high among those who sprang Byron De La Beckwith, the accused killer of N.A.A.C.P. Leader Medgar Evers. Under Cunningham's skilled guidance, one by one the eight defendants told the all-white jury that either they were somewhere else during the riot or, if they were present, "I never hit nobody." A parade of character witnesses, including a local judge, warmly vouched for the defendants' reputations for truth. Lawyer Cunningham then attacked Police Captain Turner's credibility by producing other character...
Beyond equipment, there is the matter of modern training. Athletes have always trained, but never so scientifically, so intensely. Glenn Cunningham, who set a world mark of 4 min. 6.8 sec. for the mile in 1934, used to call it a day after a lazy three-mile practice run; Jim Ryun, the University of Kansas sophomore who last year lowered the record to 3 min. 51.3 sec., runs at least twelve miles a day, lifts weights to increase lung capacity and competes against sprinters in relays to sharpen his speed. No longer do athletes worry about becoming musclebound, says Chemical...
...also getting choosier about which motorists to insure, often dropping clients on grounds that may be actuarially sound but strike many as capricious. A Nashville man's policy was canceled when his insurer discovered he had been arrested for shooting craps back in 1951; Cincinnati Salesman Vaughn L. Cunningham, 70, was washed out following a $150 claim-his second claim since...
...emphasize the space agency's go-go attitude, Webb named the U.S.'s new team selected to land on the moon: Navy Captain Walter Schirra, 44, a veteran of both Mercury and Gemini space flights, and two space tyros, Major Donn Eisele, 36, and Civilian Scientist Walter Cunningham, 35. The three will not only fly the Apollo but-unlike previous crews-will also have a voice in its design and construction. "We'll fly the spacecraft when we, the crew, think it is ready," said Schirra at a press conference at the North American Aviation plant...