Word: darden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is growing evidence that Carter's popularity has eroded in the South. One poll showed him losing to Ted Kennedy in his native Georgia. "Carter is like a man without a country," said Pollster Claibourne Darden. Added Beni Ivey, an Atlanta black woman who campaigned for Carter in 1976: "I get a sense that people just don't understand what is going on. And I'm confused...
...final act of the Florida drama began in Tallahassee at 6:46 a.m. on Friday, May 18, when Governor Robert Graham signed two black-bordered death warrants. One was for Willie Jasper Darden, 45, a professional robber who had been convicted of murdering a furniture store owner in Lakeland, Fla., in 1973. Darden's lawyers soon won an indefinite stay of execution so that a federal judge could consider their argument that the prosecutor prejudiced the jury at Darden's trial by saying that the defendant "shouldn't be out of his cell unless...
...almost all of the 434 skeletal muscles in the human body, which are in turn composed of 250 million muscle fibers that account for 40 per cent of the body weight of the typical American male. In his article, "Frequently Asked Questions About Muscle, Fat, and Exercise," Dr. Ellington Darden bluntly concludes "in the performance of most sports, muscles literally contribute everything, while fat contributes nothing...
...Well, then, Wallace is second choice in this area, right? Wrong. Gerald Ford is. A poll of 601 eligible voters, including Democrats, Republicans and Independents, conducted by Darden Research Corp., showed Reagan was favored by 20%, Ford by 18% and Wallace by 12%. No one else got more than Hubert Humphrey...
BATTLE FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES once again pits simians against mankind in the fifth installment of a series that with any luck will not include a sixth. The humans are the scarred survivors of nuclear disaster, led by Severn Darden as the kind of consciously hammy villain that kids love to giggle at during the Saturday matinee. The apes make a curiously pallid bunch of heroes. Roddy McDowall, a veteran of three other Ape epics, appears as Caesar, the idealistic ape who led his species out of bondage to man with a few fiery speeches and some sensible...