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Then number six Wendy Sonnebend overwhelmed Blythe Hamer in three games, allowing her only 22 points overall...
Died. Fannie Lou Hamer, 60, former Mississippi sharecropper who became a leader in the civil rights movement; of cancer; in Mound Bayou, Miss. At a Baptist rally in 1962, Mrs. Hamer heard civil rights workers urge blacks to use their ballots. "I never knew we could vote before," she later recalled. "Nobody ever told us." Two years later she electrified the Democratic National Convention with her graphic tales of being brutally beaten by police while trying to register black voters. She continued to organize voters, unions and farm cooperatives, eventually helping to integrate the Mississippi Democratic Party...
Kennedy, William O. Douglas) to the dullest (Judge Hamer H. Budge), but they all had one thing in common. While in office, none had been touched by scandal-until last week. Then...
...HAMER E. WALLIS Darwin, Australia
Zeal and Understanding. As if to heighten his aura of activity, Casey fills any gaps in his crowded schedule with press interviews, speaking engagements and visits to Wall Street trading floors. Such visibility is a striking contrast to the low profile maintained by the man he succeeded, Hamer Budge. Casey even matches the ebullience of Budge's predecessor, Manuel Cohen, whose activist zeal did not endear him to many securities...