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...success of the Gurney for Senate campaign depends in large measure upon 'early' financing. Please send us your maximum contribution, today!" This appeal in a 1967 flyer put out for Congressman Edward John Gurney helped him to that success, for he won election in 1968 as the first Republican Senator from Florida since Reconstruction days. But early and maximum fund raising also became a way of life for Gurney's political associates. Three have already served time for crimes arising from the practice, and it finally landed Gurney himself, along with another set of cronies...
Scenes from American Life continues to alternate in repertory with Eugene O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness at the BU Summer Repertory Theater, Scenes is just that--a series of 36 of them, to be exact, all having something to do with upper-middle class life in Buffalo. A.R. Gurney, Jr., the author, based this comedy on his own experience, and it extends in time from the Depression to the future. At BU at 8 p.m. Call 363-3392 for information...
...Stuart Hughes, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, resigned from the Harvard faculty in February, citing the History Department's 1973 refusal to tenure his wife Judith, an assistant professor of Social Studies, as the reason for his departure...
Florida is suffering a fire storm of scandals. Indictments and investigations are now pending against dozens of public servants, including former U.S. Senator Edward Gurney. Sadly, the judiciary offers Florida's citizens no comfort: the seven-man supreme court has been hit hardest by the scandals. Last week the third justice in little more than a year quit under a cloud, and a fourth may face impeachment. It was by far the worst series of court disgraces since 1965, when four members of the nine-judge Oklahoma supreme court were implicated in fixes and bribes...
Perhaps someone on his staff had read the Brock Yates article in Sports Illustrated or in Car and Driver, or perhaps had read the Yates book, "Sunday Driver," all of which mentioned the Yates-Gurney time from New York to Columbus--six hours. Yates said most of the cruising had been at about 80 to 90 mph, with a brief stretch on a western highway at 170 mph. The average speed, including gas stops and speeding delays, was about 80 mph. One incredible thing, though, made this race more than a case of boring elitism, Grand Prix pilot Gurney winning...