Word: georgias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mask, who, Mrs. Mackle thought, might be a twelve-year-old boy. After binding Mrs. Mackle hand and foot, the kidnapers seized Barbara and hustled her into a car. Mrs. Mackle freed herself in minutes and phoned the police. Almost at once, the FBI mobilized agents in Georgia and Florida...
...ENDS: Ted Hendricks, Miami, 6 ft. 8 in., 222 Ibs.; and Bill Stanfill, Georgia, 6 ft. 6 in., 242 Ibs. On the field, Hendricks looks like a basketball player who accidentally put on the wrong uniform. Confident that he can easily pack another 25 or 30 Ibs. onto his lean frame, scouts predict the "Stork" will continue to "worry hell out of a backfield" with his long-arm way of deflecting passes, and snagging ballcarriers from behind. Stanfill is a relentless de fender who specializes in flattening quarterbacks. Nothing fancy about him, say the scouts, "just a big strong...
...speed plus the mean streak you need to play corner." Maxwell, in the terse, tight lingo of the scouting reports, is: "Fast, with good hands. Covers a lot of ground. Likes to play it tight. Tough." If he were not a junior, another top contender is Jake Scott, Georgia, 6 ft. 1 in., 190 Ibs. He is a blue-streak threat on punt returns. When he becomes available, some scouts contemplate using him as a running back because of "his skill and instinct for using blockers...
...York City detectives, under the auspices of the First National City Bank, conducted a fraud clinic to acquaint merchants with ways of cutting their losses. Similar campaigns have been launched by retail associations from Georgia to Texas. Chicago retailers have urged the courts to take a tougher stand against shoplifters, asking for higher bond, fewer continuances and stiffer fines and sentences. Penalties already run as high as $10,000 and ten years in jail, but teen-age first offenders often get off with merely a reprimand...
...youth in Atlanta, Dickey's ef forts were mostly in outdoor sports and music. He still considers the north Georgia hills his "spiritual ground. My people are all hillbillies. I'm only second-generation city," he drawls. During World War II, he was a combat flier on some 100 missions in Black Widow night fighters over the Pacific. He later wrote about this experience in his poem, The Firebombing...