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...effects of Roth's order were immediate. Sales of suburban housing plummeted, and Detroit's housing starts continued to decline. Apparently parents were abandoning both the city and the suburbs and moving to rural areas to escape the turmoil of busing. Michigan Senator Robert Griffin proposed an antibusing amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and state legislators prohibited state gasoline-tax revenues from being used to pay for busing to integrated schools...
Brown, a 33-year-old lawyer, was serving his second term in the state legislature, and six others sought the fourth district seat vacated by the retirement of Charles Griffin. The district, 12 counties in southwest Mississippi, has about 202,000 voters, a third of them black. It contains Hinds County, site of the state capital and home of 40 per cent of the district's voters, and Jefferson County, political stronghold of Charles Evers...
...Adams paced Harvard with 22 points, as a balanced attack placed six men in double figures. Lou Silver had 16, Arnie Needleman 13, Jeff Wheat, Lew Brown 12, and Mike Griffin...
Guard Mike Griffin notched 21 points to top the Crimson scoring ledger, but it was forward Len Adams' 19 points, 16 of them in the second half, that provided the margin for the now 6-0 Crimson team...
...many ways Paar's vulnerability, his corniness and even his egocentricity are more appealing than the bland professionalism of a Johnny Carson, the empty-headed grin of a Merv Griffin, and the sometimes annoying coldness of a Dick Cavett (who will also have one week each month on ABC's Wide World of Entertainment). If Paar irritates, he also occasionally engages and surprises. "One thing Paar had, which I think he still has," says Robert Carman, the show's executive producer, "is his hold over people, the fear that if you turn him off, you might miss...