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...Gator killin' " is as time honored a pastime in the swamps of Louisiana, South Georgia and Florida as moonshining is in the hills to the north. The beasts are supposed to be protected by the Endangered Species Conservation Act of 1969, but in the three years since then, federal officials estimate, some 127,000 alligators have been slaughtered by poachers...
Columbia fared even more poorly. After four men quit because of varying degrees of unhappiness with the program, the Lions lost to Florida 87-47 and North Carolina State 76-48 at the Gator Bowl Tournament. Their record stands...
...South Georgia sheriff, L.W. ("Gator") Johnson, said that he would not arrest AWOL soldiers; "I'll protect them any way I can until this Calley thing is cleaned up," he declared. In Austin, Texas, the Statesman ran a scornful front-page editorial titled "Obituary U.S. Army"?and sold out the issue. "The death was announced by a general court-martial of six men," the editorial said. "Pallbearers will include Senators Fulbright, Kennedy and McGovern. Honorary pallbearers will include Moratorium marchers." The Texas senate called for a presidential pardon. Atlanta Printer Sam Yalanzon had takers for FREE CALLEY bumper stickers...
...fullback and defensive halfback in college, Jelic started on Pitt's Sugar Bowl and Gator Bowl teams in the late fifties. When he graduated, he played in exhibition games for two pro teams, the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Dallas Texans (who later moved to Kansas City...
...drink "sells well at rock festivals." The new brands have not escaped controversy, though it has been of a different kind from what the breweries might have expected. Early this month Stokely-Van Camp Inc. asked a federal court to enjoin Pittsburgh Brewing from selling Hop 'n Gator, claiming that the drink's name-and the taste and formula of the part that is not beer -violate Stokely's trademark right on Gatorade...