Word: fustest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...N.F.L. Commissioner Pete Rozelle, 39: his fight with the rival A.F.L. to see who puts a pro football team into Atlanta's spanking-new, $18 million, 57,000-seat stadium next year. The A.F.L. got there fustest (TIME, June 18), but after a three-week scrimmage, Atlanta's city fathers decided that Rozelle and the N.F.L. had the mostest: an older, bigger, better-playing league, and a better-paying one to boot. The N.F.L. franchise goes to Atlanta Insurance Man Rankin M. Smith, 40, who will spend something like $9,000,000 organizing a team and give Atlanta...
...traffic, the tony seaside country clubs-Jacksonville is more akin in spirit to nearby cracker towns in south Georgia than to cosmopolitan southern Florida, and seems to have reverted to type. Its newest school was named after Civil War General Nathan Bedford Forrest, and even the kids knew that "Fustest with the mostest" Forrest was one of the founders of the Ku Klux Klan. Mayor Haydon Burns is a 48-year-old segregationist with his eye on the Governor's chair and a shuddering distaste for doing anything to promote racial amity. Police Chief Luther Reynolds...