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...think it should have gone years ago to Robert Frost," commented J. Douglas Bush, Gurney Professor of English Literature...
...blockade. Cried he: "Anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of history should know that a blockade is an instrument of war. Is Bentley proposing that we sink Soviet freighters?" Bentley was indeed, and now he is making the most of his I-told-you-so chances. Florida Republican Edward J. Gurney, a war hero and former mayor of Winter Park claims that Kennedy's decision to blockade "was forced upon him by the leaders of my party-and the people are saying 'Thank...
...Roger Penske, up-and-coming U.S. auto racer from Gladwyne, Pa.: the $20,000 Pacific Grand Prix at Laguna Seca, Calif. Driving a homemade car that he put together from a beat-up Cooper and a new Climax engine, Penske took the championship when Dan Gurney's Lotus Mark 19 went bad. Penske's purse...
...California's Dan Gurney, 31, a star auto racer at home, but never before winner of a European Grand Prix race; the Grand Prix of France at Rouen, carefully nursing his German Porsche through the 219½-mile race at a slow (relatively) but sure average speed of 101.9 m.p.h. while faster cars broke down and dropped out. - Tennessee State's Wilma Rudolph Ward, lithe triple gold-medal winner at the 1960 Olympics; the 100-yd. dash at the women's National A.A.U. championships; in 10.8 sec., only .1 sec. off her own meet record...
...edifice after the late Sam Rayburn, the man who served longer as Speaker-17 years-than any other. By the same resolution, two nearby House office buildings will now be known after a couple of Mister Sam's Republican predecessors-one, built in 1908, for iron-willed Joseph Gurney ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, who reigned from 1903 to 1911, the other, finished in 1933, for Nicholas Longworth...